Making images full paper size?

I tried to make an image that, when printed, would take up the entire sheet of paper (having removed the margins in the printing properties), but I seem to have failed.

I made the image 8.5 x 11 inches, but when I printed a test at that size it came out too small... is there a % bigger that I need to make the image to fit, or did I go wrong somewhere else?:confused:

Whenever I do this, I usually change the option in the printer menu. Usually, if I remember rightly, it would be to click on borderless printing, and scale to fit media (in print preview).

You don't have to make the image 8.5 x 11, as long as you have those dimensions in scale and use the scale to fit media option you will be ok ... I think ... Or I may be talking out of my backside!

Good luck.

The proper ISO dimensions for a sheet of A4 (I presume that was the size you were aiming for) are 210mm × 297mm. This boils down to roughly 8.25 inches wide by 11.6 inches high.

This means that even if you use the "scale to fit media option" in Photoshop's Print Preview function, you will be left with a gap at the top and bottom of the sheet.

If you alter just the height in the print preview options, then you will be left with a distorted image as it won't maintain the scaling ratio.

The closest you will get without having to create a new file with the correct A4 dimensions plus a 5mm bleed, and then moving a flattened version of the file to the new project and resizing it, is to use the "scale to fit media option".

Or if you have enough room on the image that you won't cut off the content, try using a sizing scale like 108%, which will maintain the scale ration and then cover the entire A4 page.