Printing problem... help!

[mrs_jb]

I made my first bracket album on my laptop and had itall set to print. I transfered it to my desktop with the good printer. Now this computer doesn't have PS on it, so I was printing from the Windows print manager, but there is no actual size selection. So it's blowing everything up to fit the page!

Any thoughts?

[newfiemountiewife]

Ugh, no idea! I hope you figure it out!

[FlirtatiousBrat]

try making an 8 and 1/2 x 11 page in PS with the bracket page flattened on it as a jpg then transfer to your other puter and print it and see if that works

how do you have the album saved..as pngs?

[ditzyscrap]

Yeah, I'd do Meg's idea. Windows printing settings leave a lot to be desired.

[mrs_jb]

try making an 8 and 1/2 x 11 page in PS with the bracket page flattened on it as a jpg then transfer to your other puter and print it and see if that works

how do you have the album saved..as pngs?

Oh I didn't even think of that, thanks for the suggestion!

Right now I have them saved as jpegs.

[ColleenSwerb]

You can also use irfanview (a free program). When you open teh jpg and go to file > print, it has the "print as original size" or whatever they say option. So it won't stretch anything.

Irfanview is my default image viewer. WAY faster than any windwos option.

[mrs_jb]

Okay, I tried doing a 8.5 x 11 canvas and that worked, but I think it's still resizing a bit (to leave margins) and it's making the images just a smidge (maybe an 1/8th of an inch) too small.

I'm going to fight with it tomorrow because there has to be a way to do actual size.

[ditzyscrap]

Try putting it on an 8x10 canvas, maybe...since the general margins are .5 on the top and bottom and .25 on the sides (essentially, making your printable area 8x10), if your canvas is already the size of the printable area and not larger, it shouldn't resize it on it's own.

Don't worry, I'm scratching my head, cause I know what I said but I'm not sure it made sense...haha...