Printing when I try to print 8X10 inch pictures - using Adobe Elements 6 - my Canon PIXMA IP5200 will only print 9 5/8 X 7 ll/16 inch images.  How can I adjust my printer so it will print the correct size?

User Reviews
By Datanerd

from Alexandria, VA
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
3.0
Great output but finicky
11/28/2014
Pros
Compact Design
Excellent Print Quality
Cons
Pricey Replacement Ink
Unreliable
Best Uses
Photos and Graphics
Comment:
I've had this printer for over a year now. I have it set up wirelessly connected to my network. The biggest problem I have is that I have 3 computers in the household and sometimes, for whatever reason, this printer will not realize it is done printing from the last job and will continue to think that it is working. So, when you go to print to it from another computer, you get the Another computer is using the printer. Please wait. This will continue until you go and turn the printer off and wait for the insanely long turning off cycle, then turn it back on. <br /><br />Once you do get it working, it gives you great output for both text and photos. I have been doing a lot of scanning old black and white family negatives and printing them, and my family members thought the prints were from a photo lab. <br /><br />Bottom line: if you want excellent output and have a tolerance for quirky connections, you will be OK with this. If, like my wife, you just want it to work like an appliance, and find the locking up infuriating, I would not recommend it.
How long have you owned it:
More than six monthsBottom Line
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
By Larry

from Santa Rosa, CA
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
2.0
Great photos but bad paper handling
5/19/2014
Pros
Excellent Photo Printing
Excellent Print Quality
Cons
Hard Setup
Jams Easily
Slow Operation
Very Slow To Get Started
Best Uses
Photos and Graphics
Comment:
As rated by CU, it produces very nice photo prints. Text quality is also good when set on standard but not so good on fast. It takes it's time to get started when you send it something to print, whirring and clicking for a good minute before anything actually prints. My main complaint is paper handling. I sometimes print mailing labels from sheets. My previous printer, an HP 7560, would accept a sheet with an upward curled front lip. The Canon iP7220 either doesn't accept it or jams up solidly.
How long have you owned it:
A month or lessBottom Line
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
By rdman6

from Mission Viejo, CA
(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
2.0
Would not recommend
4/16/2014
Pros
Gorgeous Photos Sometimes
Cons
Jams Easily
Pricey Replacement Ink
Slow Operation
Unreliable
Best Uses
Comment:
Tried brochure paper and spent two days trying to get color right. Used glossy and matte photo paper for great print results, mostly. color shifted for no apparent reason. First batch of matte paper worked great, others jammed every 2-5 sheets. Will not pick up matte paper sometimes, gets worse the more I try.
How long have you owned it:
A month or lessBottom Line
No, I would not recommend this to a friend. The Canon Pixma iP7220 is part of the Printers test program at Consumer Reports. The Canon Pixma iP7220 Printers features and specs include Can print if color empty, Memory-card reader, PictBridge, Networking, Individual color tanks, LCD viewer, Auto-duplexing. In our lab tests, Printers models like the Canon Pixma iP7220 are reviewed on Text cost (cents), 4x6 photo cost ($), 8x10 photo cost ($), 4x6 photo time, 8x10 photo time, Overall score, Photo quality, Power saving, Text quality, Graphics quality, Ink cost/month ($), Maintenance ink use, Text speed. Consumer Reports subscribers share reviews of the Canon Pixma iP7220 based on personal experience. The user reviews of the Canon Pixma iP7220 include star ratings, pros, cons, best uses, and a bottom line review to help guide your purchasing decision of the Canon Pixma iP7220.

Their software is not the only game in town - try some other software

Dots per inch is an output specification and is meaningless to a camera. If you take a picture and make both a 4x6 print and an 8x10 print from it, you'll have two prints of exactly the same picture but with completely different DPI numbers. The camera inserts a value into this field simply because one is required. If you want to change it, you can do it at the time of printing using the photo-printing program.

The DPI (dots per inch) number only has meaning when printing the picture. It's meaningless to a camera.
The M1093IS takes photos that are 3672 x 2748 pixels at its best resolution. If you make a 4x6 print of one, you'll be getting more than 600dpi. If you make a 8x10 print of the same picture, you'll only be getting about 300dpi. Yet they're made from the same image file.
If you must change the image file itself, open it in just about any photo editor, change the DPI field, then save the file. Make sure you do this to a copy, not the original.

Hilary,

Go into your printing preferences in the driver and change your print quality to best. That will stop the white lines.

Not really, since "300 dpi" is a print resolution specification. The camera takes pictures at whatever resolution you have set (0.3MP to 7.1MP on the A570).

If you print a 0.3MP photo at 300dpi, you'll get a picture 1.6 inches by 2.1 inches (smaller than a business card). If you print a 7.1MP photo at 300dpi, you'll get a picture about 8 inches by 10 inches. You can also get an 8x10 from the 0.3MP if you print at 60dpi, but the result will be rather grainy.

Again, "300 dpi" has no meaning to the camera.

I don't know this machine as such but I just looked at the manual and perhaps I should have put my glasses on but I did not see that you can print on or from a CD, compact disc (~5.25 inches in diameter). If you meant to say that you could not print from a compact flash memory card, small rectangular device about an inch in L/W and 3/16 thick, then you might not have the correct file type on there. You need to have jpg images on there not RAW or edited images with a non jpg format. Is the message really saying there is no disc or there are no photos in memory card? No photos could mean that it is empty or the wrong format.

You can download a user's manual from Canon if you need one.

Good luck!

K2

Downloaded following program for Vista and was able to print borderless pictures on Canoni9900

Easy-PhotoPrint EX Ver.2.0.3 (Windows Vista/Vista64/XP/2000)
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=SupportDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=232&modelid=9870#DownloadDetailAct

If the dimensions of the picture your trying to print are not in a 2:3 ratio (same ratio as 4 x 6), it cannot fill the entire 4 x 6 area without distorting the image, i.e., you would have to "stretch" the dimension which has white margins right now to fill the paper. To print an undistorted borderless image, you will have to "crop" the picture so that the remaining dimensions are in a 2:3 ratio.

Try downloading a free program like paint.net (www.getpaint.net), open the photo in it, find image size in one of the toolbars (usually the image toolbar) and setting it to 2 inches