Printing problem with Epson. What am I doing wrong?

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Not having time go into the darkroom lately, I tried printing a scanned in negative. After making usual adjustments, all appeared fine until I tried to print it. No matter how I set it up to print onto my Epston Stylus 875 printer, it alwasy prints out the same size in the same place. I will punch in 5 x 7 and it will print out a small 2x2 print halfway down against the left margin. Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this? I'm using photoshop. I have changed the size in paget set up, adjusted printer dialog box different ways, callibrated the printer and still have this problem. Any help would truly be appreciated

-- Gabe (egabe@earthlink.net), May 05, 2002

Answers

Gabe, in Photoshop, when you click on 'Image' and then 'Image Size,' what do you get for the size. It should be at the dimension in which you want to print the final image.

chris

-- Christian Harkness (chris.harkness@eudoramail.com), May 05, 2002.


Along with what Christian states, if you want it placed in a different spot, open a new document (same dpi) and make it 8.5x11. Go back to the photo, select all, copy, click on the new document and paste the image onto the new empty doucument. Click on your move tool and move the image where you want and then resize or really visa-versa. As fas as print size, go to your View menu and scroll down to print size. This will show the image in it's true size. Make adjustments from there. Hope this helps a bit.

-- Scott Walton (walton@ll.mit.edu), May 06, 2002.

I have an Epson 760, so I don't know about the 875, but you never know, their drivers may be similar. 1) - In PS «File» menu I go to «Page setup» and choose the paper size (either pre-defined or custom), then I choose «Orientation» (portrait or landscape) and then I click on an option called «centered». 2) - I then go to «Print options» and make sure the option «Scale to fit media» is clicked. That's the most important. Then I click «Print» and make final image setups. That does the trick for me. It might help you.

-- Olivier (olreiche@videotron.ca), May 09, 2002.

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