How to print without borders on canon printers

Occasionally, we need to get rid of all the borders on our prints, whether it’s because we don’t want to see the borders on it, or because we need to delete the borders on the particular document we’re about to print.

Even if you make the document larger than it originally is and try to print it this way, you won’t be able to achieve a borderless print because your printing program has been configured to show every border. This option has been preset on your printer.

This is why we created this post, which we’ve extracted from the canon printer user manual. If you have the installation manual with you, we recommend you read it; printer manufacturers always include useful information that could help you use your printer in a better way.

When we talk about border or borderless printing, we’re referring to prints that look like the ones depicted in the following pictures. The first one has been printed with borders, and the second one without.

example of image with and without edges

The configuration procedure for borderless printing is the following:

Please keep in mind you must have already installed the corresponding drivers, and also to know a little bit about how to manipulate the way they function. Step #1:The first step is to open the printer’s settings to select the borderless printing option. You can locate this option on the page layout menu.

In order to enter the printer settings window, you must follow the next steps. However, this will all depend on the operating system you’re working with. If you wish to learn which operating system you’re using on your computer, please read the post how to find out which operating system I’m using.

Steps to enter your printer’s settings:

1. In windowsxp, select start menu - control panel - printers and other hardware - printers and faxes. 2. If you’re using windows7, click on start menu - printing devices.
Now select your printer model. On windows7, it’s usually depicted with a printer logo. Then open the file menu and select printing preferences. A new driver configuration window will appear. Step #2:Now that you’ve entered the printer’s preferences, you will be able to see many different options to choose from. Select the page setup option, located on the upper part of the window. This is the second option on the menu from left to right.

configuration page

Step #3:After you’ve opened this menu, select the borderless printing option.

configuration menu and select the red box

Step #4:Once you’ve selected this option, click on execute. A configuration message will appear, and then you must must on accept. From now on, you could start getting a message every time you’re about to print, asking you to select this option or not for that particular printing job. Step #5:Check the type of paper you want to print with has been set as the default one. If you’re about to print with A4 paper, for example, make sure the page size on your printer is also A4. You can change or modify this on the page size option. Step #6:Now you must adjust the amount of extension according to your own needs. You will need to do this particular configuration using the gliding menu. If you go right, you’ll increase the size, and if you go left you’ll decrease it. Please take a look at the following picture.

control to change the page size

Step #7:

Finally, click on ok and save all the configuration. Your printer should now print without any borders.

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