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Post by stevenm on Jul 7, 2015 1:04:05 GMT
I seem to have always had this issue since my PSE days up to now using PSCC. I received a photo from a friend of herself and decided to print it. I loaded it into PS cc and saw it's size was 2550 X 3300px. Since I don't speak pixels I told PS to make it into a 5X7 after converting it into a smart object. According to the rulers and guides I made, the actual printed area was 4.6x6.5. I even gone down as far as 4x6
However when I printed it PS warned as always that the printed area exceeded the size of the paper. Is there a trick I'm missing as I've watched and read every printing video/article I could find. TIA |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 1:55:47 GMT
I'm not sure what all your settings are so I'll describe what I normally do. The very first thing I do is crop the image to the print dimensions I want by specifying the width and height values (mm, in) and leaving the resolution setting empty so that no interpolation is done. As long as the resulting PPI is ~240+ then you're good to go. Otherwise the print quality might not be what you expected Then I set up printer driver by specfying the paper type and size. Lastly, in the PSE print dialog I then set PSE to manage the colours, set the printer profile to use and select print "Actual Size". After clicking Print, I get the image printed without any problems/warnings. If you need more help, feel free to post back  |
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Post by Sepiana on Jul 7, 2015 2:05:45 GMT
However when I printed it PS warned as always that the printed area exceeded the size of the paper. Is there a trick I'm missing as I've watched and read every printing video/article I could find. Hi Steven,
I also have Photoshop CC. I remember getting this error message. These suggestions from the Help file took care of the problem. (See the Note about this error message.)
Position and scale images
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 3:28:15 GMT
Try not to up-scale (make prints larger) since your ppi will be reduced. Up-scaling interpolates (creates extra and guesstimates pixel rgb values) If your ppi for the paper size is too low (300ppi rough rule of thumb minimum) then your print quality will suffer. Down-scaling should not cause any problems since your ppi will increase. I find 100% cropping (cropping without interpolation) the image to the print size I want, as long as the resulting ppi is still sufficient, will always give me a good quality, correctly sized print after I set the other print settings as posted earlier.
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Post by stevenm on Jul 7, 2015 20:13:44 GMT
However when I printed it PS warned as always that the printed area exceeded the size of the paper. Is there a trick I'm missing as I've watched and read every printing video/article I could find. Hi Steven,
I also have Photoshop CC. I remember getting this error message. These suggestions from the Help file took care of the problem. (See the Note about this error message.)
Position and scale images
OK, when it shows me the preview everything looks centered and nothing is near the edge. I have a feeling it might actually be my printer. Which has been driving me insane the last 2 months saying it's not connected. an "hp officejet pro" 8600. I bookmarked your link and will try it next time. TY everyone. |
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Post by Sepiana on Jul 7, 2015 20:23:14 GMT
OK, when it shows me the preview everything looks centered and nothing is near the edge. I have a feeling it might actually be my printer. Which has been driving me insane the last 2 months saying it's not connected. an "hp officejet pro" 8600. I bookmarked your link and will try it next time. TY everyone. Steven, you are most welcome! Hope it will work for you as it did for me. |
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Post by Sepiana on Jul 8, 2015 0:39:57 GMT
I have a feeling it might actually be my printer. Which has been driving me insane the last 2 months saying it's not connected. an "hp officejet pro" 8600 Steven,
I also have a printer by HP, shared via my home network. All of a sudden it began giving me such an error message although, when I checked the printer, it was still the default one and was still showing as shared. I was able to stop this nonsense by uninstalling the printer and manually deleting any residual files. Then, I ran a disk cleanup and defragmentation. Next, I reinstalled the printer. The error message stopped.
BTW, have you tried using the HP Diagnostic Tools?
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