Printing a photo at a specific size on my inkjet in Vista... How?!

[stevoarnold]

Ok, so this seems like a simple enough request and I know I have been able to do it in the past on XP, but its driving me crazy right now.

All i want to do is print a photo at a specific size on a piece of A4 glossy paper, cut it out and put it in a frame.

I have made the image to the correct dimensions in photoshop and set it at 300dpi. I have exported a JPEG of the image.

In the past, printing from windows picture viewer gave me the option to print the image at its original size, centered on the page. Now on Vista I do not have that option. Only Full Page, or a small number of pre-set sizes. None of which fit my image.

The windows help says that I must crop my image to fit one of the templates provided! What a load of horse muck!

I dont think its the printer at fault, its an epson TX100 (fairly modern) and the one I previously used which worked was a really old epson inkjet. However I may be wrong on that.

Does anyone know how to just print an image at its original size please?

Cheers

Edit: btw, printing from photoshop didnt actually print at the correct size either. When the image printed it was severely cropped.
One more thing, i have the most up to date drivers for my printer.

[Car2n]

You've got something mucked up somewhere. Either the image is not actually the size you think it is in Photoshop or there is one or more settings incorrect in the Photoshop print dialog box. Forget the Vista viewer, get it right in Photoshop and print from there.

[stevoarnold]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

The image is 8x5 inches in photoshop at 300dpi. When I printed it from photoshop, the preview showed the image correctly sized and in the center of the page. The settings in the "scaled print size" section show the correct dimensions and I do have the "scale to fit media" UNchecked.

When it printed, it came out cropped and at the edge of the page. If I cant trust photoshop'sprint preview, what can I do?

To be honest, I've never had any luck with photoshops print options, which is why I usually use the windows options.

Cheers

[Car2n]

Are you checking the settings in the Print Preference of the printer itself too?

> If I cant trust photoshop'sprint preview, what can I do?
You should be able to,, thousands of other people can.

[stevoarnold]

Hmm, ok, so I just tried it again so I could grab a couple of screenshots showing all my settings etc and it has printed as desired this time.

I could have been certain that the settings were the same as last time, but there is a possibility I was wrong!

On a possibly related side-note, I did receive a message informing me that i am printing to a non-postscript printer and that my document may print incorrectly. Before seeing the latest printout I thought that that was probably the issue. However it did print correctly this time. Is the message about printing to a non-postscript printer that important? Does it usually cause problems?