Busenitz Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Is anyone else having trouble with borderless printing? (I'm running Mavericks with a Canon Pixma MX860) I am choosing the Paper Handling to Letter Borderless, which enables the Amount of Extension slider under Borderless Printing, but not matter the setting I choose, the edges still show white in the preview, and print white as well. I am not having this issue with other programs (iDraw, Pages, OpenOffice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Busenitz, It might help to let them know which version of Affinity Designer you are using. Are you using the Mac App Store version or the beta version? If you are using the App Store version, you should download the beta and give it a try and see if it fixes your problem. Just be aware that if you save a file using the beta, you will no longer be able to open it using the App Store version (so I would make a copy of my files first just in case). I would also suggest that you try exporting your Affinity Designer file as a PDF and then try using Preview (or Acrobat) to print it and see if that works. Just something to try. Good Luck! Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busenitz Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Thanks for the suggestion, yes, I am using the latest beta (1.1.2.22384) I have not tried borderless printing in any other version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busenitz Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Oh, and same result in retail/Apple version 1.1.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I see, it is good that you tired them both. Have you tried exporting your file as a PDF and then print the PDF using Preview or Acrobat? For me, when I have trouble that sometimes does the trick. Let me know if you figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busenitz Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 The PDF preview still has the white border in both AD 1.1.2 and Beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Busenitz, Are you printing a photo or some vector art? I don't believe that Affinity Designer has the ability to use bleeds just yet but it is on the roadmap. When I export a vector drawing, it doesn't create a white border but I haven't tried it with a photo. Have you tried cropping the PDF in Preview or Acrobat so that the border isn't there? I know it isn't ideal but it might work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busenitz Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Ok, that could be the problem. I'm using the program mostly for vector work, but wanted to print an 8.5x11 for scrapbooking, and since I had AD open, just dragged in a jpg. I've also tried clipping the jpg in a vector 8.5x11. Sorry, I'm not a pro here, just a serious home crafter, used to CorelDRAW. You've probably answered the question, so I'll wait and see - figured it might be on my end. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 9, 2015 Hi Busenitz, I think that Affinity Designer is showing you what your printer is reporting are its genuine unprintable areas - which in this case doesn't sound like it's right? I've got a Pixma 6300 at home so I'll try to take a look... In the meantime, Hokusai has suggested some really great things (thanks Hokusai!) - one of which was exporting to PDF - don't confuse this with 'Save as PDF' (or whatever it's called) in the Print dialog - that saves the Print output to a PDF so will include the printer's unprintable region clip! Instead, choose File->Export and select PDF. This knows nothing about the printer and shouldn't produce any clipping. Now you should be fine to just print that PDF. Sorry about this in the meantime, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busenitz Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Exporting to PDF, and printing the PDF got rid of the border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Busenitz, Glad to hear that using a PDF file worked. Thanks for posting about it, it might help others out there that have the same problem. Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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