I use Irfanview to print images.

I bought a Digital Camera Eleven Years ago.
Here's what happened the first time I printed a photo from the
SD Card my camera uses.

I put a 4" X 6" sheet of Glossy Photo Paper in the Ink Jet Printer
and was disappointed at the results because I had placed it in the
Paper Tray like this:
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I didn't know that the printer expected the paper to be put in
like this:
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| | so the whole image would get put on the paper.
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Only about [4"] of the photo got printed on that piece of EXPENSIVE
GLOSSY Photo Paper.

Another Learning Experience about using a Computer.

To Me, putting the paper in the Paper Tray as I had first done
would have shortened the time the print job took - because the
print head would move 6 inches across the paper, and the platen
wouldn't advance the paper as many time.

DUH!, what was I thinking.
"I WAS" using a Printer attached to a COMPUTER wasn't I?
Computers do what THEY want to do not as the Operator desired. DUH!

Today, after printing a 4 X 6 image an idea came to Ed's Head [TM].
After pressing CTRL P, on the Print Preview window I selected
Landscape, Best fit to page (aspect ratio) and set the Units to
inches and then clicked the Printer setup [Button].

In the Print Setup window I selected '4 x 6 in' and clicked the
Properties [Button] and selected - Photo Paper Glossy, and clicked
the Check Box for Print Preview.

After clicking [OK] buttons twice, the Print Preview window
showed 'Resulting image size on paper' was: 5.02 x 3.77 inches .

I clicked the [Printer setup] Button and changed the '4 x 6 in'
setting to 'Letter (8 1/2 x 11 in)' then clicked [OK] .

The Print Preview window now showed the changed paper size setting
so I clicked the Portrait selection.
Next I clicked the Custom selection under 'Print size' and entered
the Height as 3.77 and made sure the Aspect ratio Box was checked.

After I clicked the [Print] Button the Preview window showed the
image would print just I had always wanted the Printer to do.

Just Bragging, He He He.
Hope MY B-I-G Idea is of help to Somebody else.

73 (Best Regards) de (From) Ed W9ODR dit dit

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Hello Ed Vance!

** On Wednesday 08.09.21 - 19:32, Ed Vance wrote to All:

I use Irfanview to print images.

[...]

Only about [4"] of the photo got printed on that piece of
EXPENSIVE GLOSSY Photo Paper.

Usually a printer provides a visual clue as to how it expects
the paper to be loaded. That is, there should be an embossed
symbol on the feed tray that indicates what it expects to be
the "top edge", and whether the printed side is to be inserted
face up or face down.





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09-09-21 07:18 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Photo Printed MY WAY! Howdy! August,

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Hello Ed Vance!

** On Wednesday 08.09.21 - 19:32, Ed Vance wrote to All:

I use Irfanview to print images.

[...]

Only about [4"] of the photo got printed on that piece of
EXPENSIVE GLOSSY Photo Paper.

Usually a printer provides a visual clue as to how it expects
the paper to be loaded. That is, there should be an embossed
symbol on the feed tray that indicates what it expects to be
the "top edge", and whether the printed side is to be inserted
face up or face down.

I just had to learn the Care and Feeding of the Printer, to know
exactly how "IT" wanted me to use it when printing photos.

Of course, everything I do here is learned The Hard Way.

The Ink Jet Printer I use is a Epson Stylus NX430.
Paper gets put in the Back on this printer just as the older
Dot-Matrix Printers did.

On the NX430 there is an Paper Width adjustment on the left side to
slide against the edge of the paper to keep the stack straight.

73 de Ed W9ODR dit dit


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