2 Replies Latest reply: Dec 6, 2011 4:32 PM by Tai Lao RSS

    Photoshop -> Preview -> Printer = Size Change

    -MP-

      Hi,

       

      This might be more of a printer issue than Photoshop but i'm not sure... I'm trying to print off a few things in specific sizes. I've created the image in Photoshop (on Mac upstairs) and have to email/ USB it to the Macbook so i can take it to the printer. Now in Photoshop i check over and over again and the size is fine but as soon as i put it on the Macbook (without Photoshop) it prints off wrong. Is this because i'm opening it with preview? Or the printer? It's literally everytime, i make the exact size i want and check over and over and it prints off about .2 inches smaller one way and .15 smaller the other.

       

      Can anyone help? I just cannot work out a solution and deep down i have a feeling it's the damn printer but if anyone has a fix please let me know.

       

      Thanks,

       

      Martyn

        • 1. Re: Photoshop -> Preview -> Printer = Size Change
          Dave Polaschek Adobe Employee

          Are you using a "borderless" paper size? If so, the printer scales your image up slightly to make sure there are no gaps when there's a slight misalignment of the paper. If you then print to a different printer, the scaling isn't applied, and your image can be smaller.

           

          You really need to print straight from Photoshop to the printer, or at least to the printer driver for the printer you're going to print to. Otherwise getting the paper sizes (and thus the image sizes) to match up is going to be difficult.

          • 2. Re: Photoshop -> Preview -> Printer = Size Change
            Community Member

            -MP- wrote:

             

            …Is this because i'm opening it with preview?…

             

            At that point, your question ceases to be a Photoshop issue and thus really belongs in the Apple Discussion boards.

             

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