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teknokat;25500 wrote: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:

whitesquizzel;34598 wrote: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

whitesquizzel;34594 wrote: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

JSR;34599 wrote: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.

teknokat;34603 wrote: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.