Can the Canon Selphy CP1300 print truly borderless without trimming the image?
Asked 12/11/2022
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I’m using a Canon Selphy CP1300 on postcard-size media (100×148 mm) and want edge-to-edge prints without losing any of the image. However, when I print either from macOS or directly from an SD card, the printer seems to enlarge the image slightly and crops a few millimeters off all four sides, even when the file already matches the paper’s aspect ratio exactly. I don’t see any setting in the printer, driver, or web interface to disable this. Is there any way to make the CP1300 print the full image borderless, or is slight cropping unavoidable on this printer?
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I don’t use my CP1300 with a Mac.
I know bordered prints are possible when printing from an SD card in the CP1300 card slot using the on device menus, because I do this on the road with mine.
That is probably the simplest workaround for a limitation with MacOS.
I know bordered prints are possible on iOS using the Canon Selphy App when Canon Print app is also installed, because I also print that way.
Finally, I know the Windows driver also allows printing with borders but requires allowing the image to be scaled via the settings and produces non-uniform borders when the aspect ratio is maintained (per the nature of proportions).
Also just to be clear, all common printers resize images for borderless printing because the tolerances of manufacturing and the dimensional changes to paper with humidity and temperature make pixel perfect printing impossible.
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Slight cropping is generally unavoidable in borderless printing on the Selphy CP1300. Like many printers, it enlarges the image a bit so there are no white edges caused by paper transport and manufacturing tolerances. So even a file with the exact same aspect ratio as the paper can still be trimmed slightly on all sides.
If you need the entire image preserved, the practical options are:
- print with borders instead of borderless, where available
- add your own extra margin/canvas around the photo so the printer crops that instead of the image
Printing with borders is possible in some workflows, such as from the CP1300’s SD-card menu, iOS via Canon’s app, and Windows driver settings. If borderless output is required, manually padding the image before printing is the usual workaround.
So: no true “full image, no crop” borderless mode is indicated here; the workaround is bordered printing or pre-expanding the image canvas.
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