cropping and printing problem

[MelC]

Could someone kindly advise on the following matter - when l crop a photo and then go to print the cropped image, the printed image invariably does not fully print all the contents of the photo that has been cropped. Could someone advise what lm doing wrong and how l manage to print the cropped image without losing any part of the image. Many thanks

[rekhon]

i dont think these is the right section to post this, but here goes, my best guess (i dont know on what you print, or from what you print) is that you have to crop at the right size, to match the printer if the printers uses borders try to crop or resize the pic to fit inside the borders. my best shot!

[Swampy]

That's right. What printer are you printing to and what size are you cropping to?

I have a dyesub 8x10 printer and another dye syb that does 4x6 and 5x8 prints. When I want to print to any of those sizes, I grab the crop tool, set the size in the top and set the resolution to the native pixels per inch that the printers print at. If you're printing to inkjet, the resolution you'd want to use is debatable at around 150dpi to 300dpi.

My dye subs all print at 314dpi, so if I wanted an 8x10 print, I'd crop to 8x10 and 314dpi and it fits just fine. The 8x10 printer isn't borderless, so I'm not sure if it's printing exactly 8x10 or not, but it's close enough for me not to worry about it because it fits in a frame right.

My 4x6/5x8 printer is borderless and when I crop for those using the crop tool, it fills the paper edge to edge without doing anything else.