Canon imagePROGRAF W6400 User Manual page 181

Printing from Macintosh
Printing Photos and Illustrations without
Borders (Borderless Printing)
Normally a printed document has white space around its
edges (margins), but a borderless print for a photograph or
created image has no white space at its borders; its entire
surface is covered by printing.
Settings Required for Borderless Printing
Before performing the print job, make sure that a media
that can be used for borderless printing is loaded. Only
media fed from the roll can be used for borderless print-
ing on this printer.
Here is a list of the types of roll media and their widths
that can be used for borderless printing.
Paper Type
Heavyweight Coated Paper,
Premium Matte Paper, Extra
Heavyweight Coated Paper,
Glossy Photo Paper, SemiGlos
Photo Paper, Heavyweight
Glossy Photo Paper,
Heavyweight SemiGlos Photo,
Flame Resistant-Cloth, Fine Art
Photo, Fine Art Heavyweight
Photo, Fine Art Textured,
Canvas SemiGlos, Special 1-5
Important
Paper of types and roll widths other than those listed
above cannot be used for borderless printing.
The following types of media cannot be cut and are
printed left to right during borderless printing.
Fine Art Photo, Fine Art Heavyweight Photo, Fine Art
Textured, Canvas Matte
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Corresponding Roll Width
10-in. Roll (254.0mm)
14-in. Roll (355.6mm)
16-in Roll (355.6 mm)
24-in. Roll (609.6mm)
JIS B2/B3 Roll (515.0 mm)
ISO A1/A2 Roll (594.0 mm)
When you perform borderless printing, be sure to select
Enlarged/Reduced Printing on the Finishing panel
(Page Setup for OS 8/9). This allows Borderless Print-
ing to be performed.
Important
Borderless Printing cannot be performed under the
following conditions.
When Cut Sheet is selected under Media Source on
the Finishing panel.
When Roll Paper (Banner Printing) is selected
under Media Source on the Finishing panel.
When Scaling is selected for Enlarged/Reduced
Printing.
When Rotate Page 90 degrees (Conserve Paper) is
selected on the Finishing panel.
When several pages are selected for Pages per
Sheet (Page Layout for OS 8/9) on the Layout
panel (Page Setup for OS 8/9).
When Print Centered is selected on the Finishing
panel
When the setting selected for Roll Paper Width does
not support borderless printing
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Chapter 1
Basic Procedures
Chapter 2
Using a Variety of
Media
Chapter 3
Printing Methods for
Different Objectives
Chapter 4
Maintaining the
Printer
Chapter 5
Using the Printer in a
Network Environ-
ment
Chapter 6
Troubleshooting
Chapter 7
Operation of the
Function Menus
Contents
Index