Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8400 User Guide - Page 105

Enhanced Printing Options iPF8400 Borderless Printing by Resizing Originals to Fit the Roll Width (Windows) • When printing without borders, be certain to set the blue switch on the platen to the ● side. If the switch is set incorrectly, Important print quality may deteriorate. (See "Setting the Blue Switch on the Platen.") →P.974 • Borderless printing is not possible if details such as crop marks and margins are included as data on the periphery of the original. • If the length of the image to print is short, then since the roll paper is fed out to a prescribed length before cutting in order to prevent cutting problems and ejection problems, the trailing edge of the roll paper might not be printed borderless. • These features cannot be used in combination with borderless printing: special page layouts, centering originals, and printing cut lines on rolls. • If Fit Paper Size or Print Image with Actual Size (Windows only) is selected while performing borderless printing, Rotate Page 90 degrees (Conserve Paper) cannot be selected. Note that if borderless printing is possible, then even if the original is rotated 90 degrees, it will be printed by automatically rotating the page by 90 degrees. Choose the method of borderless printing that suits the original, as desired. • Scale to fit Roll Paper Width Enlarge or reduce the original as a whole to match the roll paper width. Borderless Printing • You can combine this function with rotating pages 90 degrees before printing so that the original width (relative to por- Note trait orientation) matches the roll paper width in borderless printing. For instructions on borderless printing of photos, images, and other documents to match the roll paper width, refer to the following topics, as appropriate for your computer and operating system. • Borderless Printing by Resizing Originals to Fit the Roll Width (Windows) →P.105 • Borderless Printing by Resizing Originals to Fit the Roll Width (Mac OS X) →P.108 Borderless Printing by Resizing Originals to Fit the Roll Width (Windows) This topic describes how to enlarge originals before borderless printing to match the roll width, based on the following example. • When borderless printing is used, the edge of the paper is cut during printing. Thus, ink density may be uneven at the edges. Important If you require higher image quality, select No from the Automatic Cutting list in the Roll Paper Options dialog box. In this case, the paper can be printed without borders on the left and right sides only. Once printed and cut, please cut the upper and lower bands with scissors. • Document: Any type 105 • Page size: A4 (210.0×297.0 mm)/Letter (8.3 × 11.7 in) • Paper: Roll • Paper type: Canon Heavyweight Coated Paper User's Guide