Photoshop to Epson Printer Margin Issue

I have a small print shop and have had an issue with the new Photoshop CC not printing images with correct margins on and Epson 9890 and 11880. If I set the image to center on an 8x10 sheet (or any other size). The image comes out skewed to the upper left. between .125 and .25 inches to the left and to the top. I never had this issue with other versions of Photoshop.

Thanks for your reply. I understand that the print driver sets the margins. This has always been the case. However, if I print from a different version of photoshop on the same computer with the same printer, I do not see this problem.
It is as though Photoshop is centering between the right margin edge and the left paper edge, leading the print to be off center. If it simply centered between the margin edges (as it always did in the past) there would be no problem.

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Your screen shot clearly shows Shrink To Printable Area seleted in Page Scaling.
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Message was edited by: macgurl_70 I forgot to ask, it reads like you are having them printed on an offset press - the pantone colors will always be more vivid and correct since they are using a specially formulated ink and not a cmyk (or rgb) mix of colors. Also, when they are printing - the plates will print the spot color as one plate for that specific ink - and NOT four plates for the CMYK, giving them the most accurate color. No matter what printer you choose, it will not print EXACT pantone colors, so check on the shift in that pantone guide (I didn't see much of one, but they were definitely not as vivid).
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