Photoshop CS5 not printing actual size?

I have created a document in photoshop sized 8.5x11, the same size as my printer paper, at 300dpi. I am using the ruler guidelines onscreen to make an image 6 3/4" wide, but it is printing out too small at 6".
Please note that I am not measuring onscreen by putting an actual ruler up against my screen, I am using the photoshop ruler (so I am sizing according to the 6 3/4" ruler in photoshop, even if it is 8" on my screen)
In the print settings, I uncheck "scale to fit media" and "center image".
What am I doing wrong?

post a screen shot of your process.... it sounds right, but i bet we can catch something in your documentation of this process
thanks
janelle

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CS5 not printing actual size

I'm using CS5 Extended. I have a canvas size of 8.4x10.95 that I print on 8.5x11 portrait paper. The Scale to Fit Media checkbox is unchecked, and the Scale field is 100%. The printer dialog is set to borderless.
When printed, the image seems to be enlarged by about 1/2 inch, cropping top and bottom.
Need help!
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Recumbents wrote:
I'm using CS5 Extended. I have a canvas size of 8.4x10.95 that I print on 8.5x11 portrait paper. The Scale to Fit Media checkbox is unchecked, and the Scale field is 100%. The printer dialog is set to borderless.
When printed, the image seems to be enlarged by about 1/2 inch, cropping top and bottom.
You may not be scaling in Photoshop, but with Epson printers, if you choose any Borderless paper size the Epson printer driver is going to enlarge the print job slightly to extend each side past the edges of the paper. The slight enlargement may not be noticeable when you're printing a photo that isn't tightly cropped, but it can be very obvious when you're printing a design with specific dimensions. Like the greeting card that's shown.
You'll probably get what you want if you choose the non-borderless version of the paper size, which in this case seems to be US Letter.
If you wanted to take a closer look at it, the Epson printer driver lets you customize how much it enlarges. The screen shot I added shows the setting in OS X; I forget where it is in Windows. But as you can see, if you choose borderless you can't avoid scaling entirely. To achieve borderless printing it has to have some way to ensure that the image will be bigger than the paper.

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Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
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