Epson Stylus Pro 4000 Product Support Bulletin

EPSON Product Support Bulletin

Date: 1/27/05 Originator: SA/JA
PSB #: PSB.2005.01.002 Authorization:

Reference: N/A Total Pages: 4
Product(s): ColorBurst RIP for Stylus Pro 4000
Subject: Image Clipping Update

Stylus Pro 4000 ColorBurst RIP Image Clipping Update

This document provides instructions and how to correct image length clipping issues from Stylus Pro 4000
ColorBurst Rip when printing on sheet paper.

Macintosh OS X Instructions

1. Download the updated version of the ColorBurst Rip Server version 3.8.2 from Epson’s web site.
The file name is epson11321 and can be downloaded from www.epson.com.

2. Install the ColorBurst Rip Server update and the PPD file. For instructions please refer to the
What’s Changed.PDF file that is included with the ColorBurst 3.8.2 updater.

3. Once the updates have been installed setup your print jobs as normal from your applications.
Select ColorBurst as your printer driver. Select the page size that you want to print on. This can
be a predefined page size or a custom page size.

4. Launch the ColorBurst Rip on the server computer. Once the ColorBurst Rip window is up and
running, select your environment for the media that you are using. Click on the Printer Settings
button.

5. Under Printer Controls select Print from Sheet for your media source. Check Use Page
Settings and input the page width and height values in the Paper Size box. These settings must
match the settings you selected from your application under Page Setup.

For example, if you selected Letter Size from your application, enter 8.5” for the width and 11” for
the heigth.

For Image Offset select Auto Center to center the image. Click on OK to finish.

Note: With the Auto Center option selection, if your image size is larger then the actual printable area

supported by the printer hardware some clipping may still occur in the image length, approximately
1/16 of an inch. The printer always has a fixed bottom margin of .56 inches. If you are printing an
8x10 image on an 8.5x11 page auto centering will clip part of the image lengthwise in order to center
the image top to bottom. To avoid clipping the image you must select Manual Position under Image
Offset and also uncheck auto centering option under your application and set the margins manually.
You may have to set the top margin in your application to .25” to get the full 8x10 image to print.

6. Now you are ready to send the job from your application or drag and drop into the hot folder.

PC Windows XP/2000 Instructions

No updated software is required to correct the image clipping issue under Windows XP/2000. However the
following changes have to be made.

1. Setup your print jobs as normal from your applications. Select ColorBurst as your printer driver.
Select the page size that you want to print on. This can be a predefined page size or a custom page
size.

2. Launch the ColorBurst Rip on the server computer. Once the ColorBurst Rip windows is up and
running go to Options menu then select Printer Options.

3. Under Page Setup select User page dimensions option and enter the page width and height
dimensions.

4. Select Position upper left corner of job option. This option does not center the image, but it will
allow to print the full image without clipping. Click on OK to close the window.

Note: To center the image select Center job within page dimensions. With the Center job within

page dimensions option, if your image size is larger then the actual printable area supported by the

printer hardware then some clipping may still occur in the image length, approximately 1/16 of an
inch. The printer always has a fixed bottom margin of .56 inches. If you are printing an 8x10 image
on an 8.5x11 page auto centering will clip part of the image lengthwise in order to center the image top
to bottom. To avoid clipping the image you must select Position upper left corner of job option and
also uncheck auto centering option under your application and set the margins manually. You may
have to set the top margin in your application to .25” to get the full 8x10 image to print.

5. Now you are ready to send the job from your application.

EPSON PRODUCT SUPPORT BULLETIN

Date: 07/14/2004 Originator: JD&RS
Bulletin #: PSB.2004.07.001 Authorization:
Reference: NA Total Pages: 8
Product: Stylus Pro 4000
Subject: Roll Media Borderless Printing

1. BORDERLESS PRINTING WITH AUTO EXPAND OVERVIEW

In order to achieve a true borderless print on roll media with minimal clipping with the Stylus Pro 4000 printer driver select the Auto Expand feature.
This is intended to be a quick solution to automatically expand your image width by 3% to pro duce a bord erless print. Depen ding on th e print size you choose some
clipping is normal. If clipping of the image is an issue you can try adjusting your image print size so when “Auto Expand” is selected minimal clipping occurs. This
document outlines the steps required to produce roll media prints with minimal clipping of the left and right edges of your image.

The examples in this document represent how you would crea te a borderless 8” X 10” print on Epson 10” roll media with the Auto Expand feature o f the Epson dr iver .
The application used was Adobe PhotoShop CS, using Macintosh O/S 10.3.3 and Windows XP.

The table below details roll paper widths and the corres ponding image width re commendations to print images with minimal clipping of the le ft and right
edges of your image when the Auto Expand driver feature is selected.

Roll Paper Width 8”* 8.3” 10” 12”* 14”* 16” 17”
Image Width 7.7675” 8.06 9.7075” 11.695” 13.695” 15.6” 16.6”

* Non Epson Roll media widths.

2. SETTING YOUR IMAGE SIZE

2.1 Start Photoshop

2.2 Open Your Image.

2.3 From the Image menu select Image Size and set your Document size to: Width 9.7075” X Height of 8”, click okay. You may need to uncheck
“Constrain Proportions” to set your desired document size.

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3. BORDELESS PRINTING MACINTOSH

3.4 Create a Custom Paper size.

3.1 From the File menu in PhotoShop select “Print with Preview”.

3.2 Click the Page Setup button.

3.3 From the Settings selection drop down menu select Custom Page
Size.

For this example we want to produce a borderless 8 in. X 10 in. print.
To do this you must create a custom page size for the finished print
size as follows:

3.4.1 Click the New button and name your custom paper
size. (For this example we will use 10*8)

3.4.2 For Paper Size setting use a Width of 10 inches and a
height of 8 inches.

3.4.3 Be sure to zero out the Printer Margin settings.

3.4.4 Click Save, then click Ok.

3.5 From the Print With Preview screen click the Page Setup button.

3.6 From the Page Setup screen:

3.6.1 Select your Custom Page Size “10X8”

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