PRINT MODULE: print to jpg-borderless

[vdotmatrix]

I have arrived into the world of color space, calibrated monitors and PRINTING to jpg from the PRINT MODULE.

For the longest time, I would simply EXPORT to a folder because I thought in PRINT you could assign a color space-uh, you can also do that in EXPORT as well.

Is there a way to print to jpg without a border? That white picture border has caused me to looose a lot of sleep.
If I am not printing to a HOME PRINTER, i prolly shouldn't be using the print module anyway right?

thanks in advance

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Hi vdotmatrix, welcome to the forum! Sorry your thread got missed.

So you want to print bordered? Are you printing to JPEG to send to a lab (in which case I'd use export anyway) or are you wanting to print to a printer? If you're printing to a printer, you need to set the printer settings to the right borderless paper size and then Lightroom will allow you to change the margins to '.

 

[RikkFlohr]

[quote author=vdotmatrix link=topic=97'5.msg65639#msg65639 date=1272512493]
If I am not printing to a HOME PRINTER, i prolly shouldn't be using the print module anyway right?
[/quote]

There are several reasons where it is valid to print to JPEG from the print module-even if you aren't doing your own printing.

1. You want to put more than one image on a single page i.e. contact sheet or picture package
2. You want to put an Identity plate with your image i.e. watermark, signature etc
3. You want a border of some sort or you want to control the white space around an image (faux matting)

If I am sending a picture to a lab for print and I don't need any of those, I bypass the print module and generate the JPEG for the lab from the Export function. As you've found out you can assign a profile and proper dimensions and resolution.

If you are printing at home, your printer must support border-less printing and it must be active for you to have access to setting zero margins.