Printing Borderless Photos

You can print your photos with no margins, extending the image all the way to the edges of the page. Although borderless printing is a bit slower, you get beautiful snapshots and enlargements, without trimming.

Loading Paper for Borderless Photos


Paper name	Sizes	Paper Type or Media Type setting
Premium Glossy Photo Paper	4 × 6 5 × 7 8 × 10 Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)	Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper	Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)	Premium Semigloss Photo Paper
Ultra Premium Glossy Photo Paper	4 × 6 Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)	Ultra Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Epson Glossy Photo Paper	4 × 6 Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)	Glossy Photo Paper
Epson Matte Paper Heavyweight	8 × 10 Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)	Matte Paper - Heavyweight

With proper care, photographs from your Epson Stylus CX will last for many years. The special Epson DURABrite Ultra inks designed for your Epson Stylus CX are formulated to achieve improved lightfastness when used with Epson papers for prints that are properly displayed or stored. For best results, always use Epson papers.

As with traditional photos, Epson recommends proper care that will minimize color changes and lengthen display life:

Frame prints under glass or in a protective plastic sleeve to protect them from atmospheric contaminants like humidity, smoke, and high levels of ozone.

As with all photographs, keep your prints away from direct sunlight.

For proper storage, keep your prints in a photo album or plastic photo storage box in acid-free, archival sleeves commonly available from most camera stores.

Always keep unused paper in the original package.

You can purchase genuine Epson ink and paper from an authorized Epson reseller. To find the nearest reseller, please call 800-GO-EPSON (800-463-7766). To purchase online, visit www.epsonstore.com (U.S. sales only). In Canada, please call (800) 463-7766 for reseller referral.

Printing Borderless Photos

Open the File menu and select Print.

Click the Properties or Preferences button. (If you see a Setup, Printer, or Options button, click it. Then click Properties or Preferences on the next screen.)

You see a window like this one:

Select Photo or Best Photo as the Quality Option setting.

Select one of the following for the paper Type option, to match the paper you're using:

Premium Glossy Photo Paper

Premium Semigloss Photo Paper

Ultra Premium Glossy Photo Paper

Matte Paper - Heavyweight

Glossy Photo Paper

Click the Borderless checkbox. Read the message and click OK.

Select your paper Size setting. See the list of supported borderless sizes in Printing Borderless Photos.

Select Portrait or Landscape as the orientation setting.

Click the Page Layout tab. You see a window like this one:

If necessary, adjust the Expansion slider in the Borderless box to choose Min, Max, or the in-between setting.

Min retains the entire image in your print, but there may be a small white edge on the borders of the print. Max expands the image to ensure that there are no unprinted edges, but the edges of the image may not appear in the print.

Click OK.

At the Print window, click OK or Print.