Canon MP800R | Borderless Print Conundrum

I have designed a A3 borderless poster in Pages (latest version). When I scale print to A4 borderless on MP800R it reduces it but with a margin (and not due to the border setting in the print options). Not only does it print with a margin it trucates the right of the poster off - not a lot but enoigh to annoy).
To get round this I set the Pages page setting to A4 Borderless and reduced the poster by 70.9% to get it to fit. The problem now is that although the A3 poster will print as an A4 borderless it won't let me set the print quality to anything ovedr than "normal" setting on the "Details" slider in the print settings box. (After much experimenting it appears that plain paper on borderless setting won't let you chose to fine print - presumably to stop saturation of 80gsm type paper - I'm using 160gsm). It also still truncates - a little - the right side.
None of this happens on my work Epson Stylus Photo 1290. It reduces effotlessly within Pages using the normal method for doing so.
A last thing - when previewing the print document to be printed the preview does not show that it is going to print with margins or truncated - in fact it looks perfect in preview.
Any ideas? I've got a working work around but it's long winded. Export to PDF, open in Acrobat and print to printer margin on A4 and except a white border. At least all the image is there.
Cheers.

Hello Frando,
Since no one seems to jumping at your posting I thought I'd have a go.
I don't have the MP800R or the latest Pages, but I do have a Canon iP5200R and Pages 1.0 that came with iWork 05. And I can recreate some of your problem...
I created an A3 page then as you say set the Page Setup to A4 Borderless and I tried a scale of 80%. I then set the Borderless Printing slider to 3/4 and found I could print on A4 full bleed with a small amount of cropping on the RH side. Changing the scaling and bleed setting helped a little, but I only got the perfect output when my original Page Setup was A4 Borderless and 100% scaling. In contrast, I made a similar layout in InDesign CS2 and it worked fine. Me thinks that Pages isn't a serious publication app. More like the dreaded MS Publisher
I also found that I don't have the restriction in Quality & Media when using plain paper, but that is most likely due to a difference in the driver.
Regards,
Paul

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