Jerry, you wanna make 100 bucks? You show me any website in the US that sells glossy 8.5 x14 photo paper and I will send you the reward. I looked for over a year and found dozens of sizes but not a single palce anywhere sold 8.5 x 14 GLOSSY photo paper. Yes, matte paper can be found but, I use paper with a gloss to more closely replicate what the studios use, a coated shiny stock. As far as borderless printing goes, maybe you can tell me how your printer can print a 7.25 x 10.8 jpeg cover at the borderless setting without having the entire image blown up to fill the page borderless? In other words, the setting is designed to take an image and print it from edge to edge on a letter size piece of paper. By not using a template and just "importing" the photo and clicking "borderless print" I have never seen a printer that was smart enough to know that I wanted to trick it into printing bordeless but, yet retain a significant border to keep the image sized correctly. I can't wait to hear the answers to these questions.
erm, I don't wanna sound harsh but maybe a new printer is what you need. If you're encountering all these problems a few bucks outlay may save you hours and hours of un-neccesary work.
with regard to ericbee's post, with a decnt printer and the correct software you can decide EXACTLY what size the final output will be!! so it's never gonna be too small. it will be exactly right every time. another thin I have noticed is that you need to match the size of the print to thje manufacturer of the DVD case, some use a thick joint at the edge of the box whereas some use a thin one resulting in a couple of mm difference. another thing is to SIZE IT IN CENTIMETRES as you can "fine tune" the size much easier.
Using cm's does make it easier to fine tune the sizes. Those nutty Americans (of which I am one so don't go nuts on me)just have to be different sometimes the Metric system works great but we are not in the habit of using it so we forget to try it.
Ok, I use a high quality, bright white REGULAR paper to print my covers. I print in photo quality. Once placed behind the clear dvd box cover its hard to tell the difference unless you pull both the printed and original out of the cover. Yes there is a slight difference, but who cares. I use Micrografx Picture Plublisher which I size the print to 10.8 inces X 7.2 inches. I flip it 90 degrees so the front is on top and print. Takes maybe 2 minutes to size and flip. We are talkng covers for DVD copies so who cares if they are GLOSSY or NOT. Its your choice. This is all on 8.5 X 11 paper. Jerry
