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Is the image format correct and exactly the same as the paper size? Is the printer printing precisely? Try printing the square if it will be square after printing.

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So i created a new photo document 6 x 4 inches and 600dpi. I then overlayed the image with equal margins on all sides. Basically following the steps on affinity’s YouTube video. I don’t believe the issue is on the printer side because i have no problems printing with canons print studio pro. I’ll try printing a square.

 

 

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Some printers have asymmetric margins, unless they have a feature that lets you print marginless (from edge to edge). If you're putting a margin around your photo manually you may need to take that into account.

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  • 3 years later...

Completely not an affinity issue (as also tried other programs) but im running into a brother printer issue (mfc-9330CDW) where the right margin is off by .0625 on every print

I keep increasing the margin with no change always .0625 off (document had .16 outer margins, increased to .18, .20, .25 to see if there would be a winning number)

updated firmware

updated driver

almost feels like intended to keep professional printers in business lol

 

this is on mac 10.14

 

going to try windows 10 next to see if any change

 

update 1: Same on Windows 10. .0625" is basically added to any margin amount on right side

update 2: Tried Adobe (mac and PC), Preview (Mac), and printing directly from Publisher (mac and PC). Next attempt is to try different printers

 

Anyone have any recommendations?

 

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4 hours ago, mrbips said:

.0625" is basically added to any margin amount on right side

So make the right margin narrower by this value.

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I have found a similar issue with my Epson Stylus Pro 3880 - but have tested with Photoshop and Affinity Photo - and it only occurs with Affinity Photo with my professional printer. It appears that Affinity Photo does not allow for Centering to be set from within the software. Photoshop does allow this. Depending on the size of your paper and your document, the skew to the left is going to be bigger or smaller. I print large products and it is VERY obvious in Affinity printing. The printers themselves are usually controlled more by the software than their own internal workings when it comes to things like size of output. They are "happy" to print off the edge or whatever - it is the software that has to control those features. My tried and true standard printing settings for art papers are completely ignored with Affinity and I basically get one setting that scales up or down but always adjusts to start scaling from the left hand margin which then leaves large margins to the right and bottom of the prints. It is not terribly noticeable on smaller items - but the larger item (A3 paper for example) is completely unusable. I'm hoping there are settings for centering in Affinity and maybe I just haven't found them?

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I just tried:

Brother: HL-2270DW - Same issue

Brother: MFC-8950DW - complete flop as if it didn't know what to do with half page paper, same issue on letter size

HP Laserjet P2055dn: PERFECT on both Letter size paper and damn near perfect on Half Page paper. Manual feed and regular tray

VersaLink Xerox: Perfect Letter size alignment, slight issue on half size. 

 

Brother brand is slightly tarnished in my eyes now... but I now know its not my document design.

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