Ricoh GXe3300N Borderless Printing Solution

[schizowife]

Woohoo, thanks Barry, not tried it yet but i'll give it a go!!! See this site is just great for people helping out if they can

[whitesquizzel]

Thanks could prove most useful!

[whitesquizzel]

I have just bought a new Ricoh 330 to replace (well until I have some patience to sort it) a very tempramental and liney Epson 1400. The printer so far is great but I was a little disappointed to find the ricoh added this "border" to everything as I had got it to do placemats and jigsaws as well as the mugs and coasters etc. I have read the options suggested and the one here works but how much damage am I likely to do to my nice new printer if I print in this way ? I have looked into the legal paper size option but I dont seem to be able to adjust the tray to make it fit and dont want to force it and break a new printer.

[whitesquizzel]

Hi,

I bought the above printer a couple of weeks ago as I'm just starting to get to grips with all this sublimation malarkey! Anyway when I was pressing the medium size place mats & ipad covers from BMS I realised their was little to no room for error when pressing them and with the ipad covers I always got a part of the cover still having a white border due to the printer insisting on leaving a white border round the image no matter how big I made the image. Anyway after searching Google and getting told this printer did not do borderless printing I played with the settings and found a solution so I thought I'd share it with other users of this printer in case they too had the same issue. Anyway rambling over onto the solution.

in the powerdriver settings next to paper size click the '+' button

name the form name anything you want but 'borderless' made sense for me

change units to metric

set the width to 23cm & height to 30cm (i only needed borderless printing in width so you might need to set the height to 32cm if you require borderless printing for the whole A4 sheet)

click add form

click OK to closedown the powerdriver settings and then open the powerdriver settings again and a new paper size will be available called 'borderless'

when you want to print an image make sure the width of the image is at least 21.5cm and ensure you set the paper size to your newly created borderless in the powerdriver settings and it should print to the very edge of the paper.

I'm printing from photoshop so I also unchecked center image and set the top and left position to 0 (zero) and also unchecked scale to fit media

I found by doing this it it printed to the edge which gave me more of a bleed area around the width for the ipad covers so no more white border and more room to manipulate the printed image when printing the medium sized place mats.

I hope this helps someone who was in the same position as me and thanks to everyone for making this such a great forum for beginners like me to start wanting to sublimate anything that moves :biggrin:

Hi thanks for this I have tried it and it works well but am a little concerned about damaging my new printer looking at some of the other comments regarding this method - I would be interested to know how much you use this method and if you think it has created any problems for you thanks

[schizowife]

I've just had some A3 paper delivered and when i've got time i'm going to cut a sheet or 2 down to A4 legal and try that option as i'm worried about excess ink covering the insides of my printer using the a4 and the borderless settings!! I know the a3 is more expensive and you end up with more waste paper but i'd rather that than damage the Ricoh! I'll wait a while and see how others fair with it first, they're braver than me

[whitesquizzel]

I've got the A3 paper as used it on my Epson and have just cut down a sheet but cant seem to get it to fit in the tray without forcing out part of the paper holding mechanism which I am not keen to do incase it breaks - will be interesting to see how you get on with it as maybe its just something I am not doing right - I would prefer this method as have loads of A3 to use up but have had to do a couple using the other method as urgent orders that have been waiting since my Epson went off the rails so am just hoping it hasnt doomed my new printer as well!
I wonder if BMS or someone can buy in the Trupix paper in the A3 legal size to save cutting it down - perhaps if its available in the American market ? Would be a lot less hassle!

[JSR]

cant seem to get it to fit in the tray without forcing out part of the paper holding mechanism which I am not keen to do incase it breaks - will be interesting to see how you get on with it as maybe its just something I am not doing right

I don't know if it helps you guys, but there's a Conde video on YouTube that introduces this printer and at around the 83s mark, they show how to adjust the tray for legal size paper:

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http://youtu.be/mRKm44wso6w?t=1m23s[/video]

Skip forward to around 1m 23s for the paper tray bit. Alternatively, click here to go straight to it: http://youtu.be/mRKm44wso6w?t=1m23s

Hope this helps.

[teknokat]

Hi thanks for this I have tried it and it works well but am a little concerned about damaging my new printer looking at some of the other comments regarding this method - I would be interested to know how much you use this method and if you think it has created any problems for you thanks

I only use this method for printing Ipad sleeves and have only printed around 20-30 so far but I never had a problem with any of them and have printed a few hundred mouse mats since with 'normal' print settings and everything was fine afterwards. If your stuck for printing a large item every now and again then my solution should be fine, if your planning on printing a few hundred using these settings then you might want to consider getting an A3 printer instead but then again it might still be fine with my solution.

[whitesquizzel]

I don't know if it helps you guys, but there's a Conde video on YouTube that introduces this printer and at around the 83s mark, they show how to adjust the tray for legal size paper:

youtube_share;mRKm44wso6w

http://youtu.be/mRKm44wso6w?t=1m23s[/video]

Skip forward to around 1m 23s for the paper tray bit. Alternatively, click here to go straight to it: http://youtu.be/mRKm44wso6w?t=1m23s

Hope this helps.

Thanks - very helpful!

[whitesquizzel]

I only use this method for printing Ipad sleeves and have only printed around 20-30 so far but I never had a problem with any of them and have printed a few hundred mouse mats since with 'normal' print settings and everything was fine afterwards. If your stuck for printing a large item every now and again then my solution should be fine, if your planning on printing a few hundred using these settings then you might want to consider getting an A3 printer instead but then again it might still be fine with my solution.

Thanks - I have an A3 Epson which is tempramental and liney but I hope to get it working again at some point when I have the patience! I bought the A4 Ricoh as couldnt stretch to the A3 version until I have made a few more pennies and needed a backup to the Epson which I cannot rely on. As soon as I have the funds will probably invest in the A3 version with the bypass tray that allows upscale to A3 plus. In the meantime I just wanted to do a few placemats and puzzles etc for xmas so sounds as if either your method (which I have already tried) or the A4 Legal paper size will be good options to tide me over.
Thanks for your help!