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Setting Up Edge-to-Edge Printing
Advanced Topics 6-23
Advanced Topics
Setting Up Edge-to-Edge Printing
The D640 printer ordinarily enforces a 1/6" unprintable area around the edge of any page. This
is the factory default and produces the best looking output. There may be some cases where
you don’t want this border. The D640 supports edge-to-edge printing, which allows you to
extend printing to the edge of the physical page.
Note The print quality is not consistent within 1/6" of any edge. This is especially true for
the trailing edge of the second side in duplex printing. For this reason, Hewlett-Packard cannot
guarantee print quality within this 1/6" area. Your Hewlett-Packard warranty and service
contract does not cover service calls related to printing within this 1/6" area.
The quality and squareness of the paper determine print quality when printing close to the
physical paper edge. In general, you may experience degraded print quality within .25 inches
of any paper edge. When printing in duplex you may need to compensate for shrinkage and
curl that may occur when the first side is printed. Lighter weight and recycled papers tend to
shrink more then heavier weight papers.
If you define text to start printing at location 0,0 it will print outside the logical page. This may
or may not be on the physical page. Figure 6-18 describes the physical and logical page
formats.
Figure 6-18 Physical and Logical Page formats