Photosmart 8750 and Photoshop Elements 8 incompatib​ility

Question

I cannot get my printer (HP 8750 Pro) to print a greeting card correctly.  I am using PSE 8 and Win7 Premium Home.  When I send the card to the printer I enter the paper size (8.5 x 11).  I change the settings to print on HP Brochure matte with 300 dpi.  I go into Page Setup and see there are no margins, then more options and enter the print size which is Height 7.0 inches by 5.5 inches wide.  I then hit apply and OK.  Check the rest of the settings, insert the cardstock into the printer.  What usually prints is a little picture of my card in the upper left hand corner of the paper.  Just enough to ruin the entire piece of cardstock.  The picture is 2 inches high and 1 and 1/4 inch wide.  I have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 driver published by HP.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?  Sometimes, but not too often, I get a perfect page printed exactly right.  This is ruining cardstock and wasting ink.  My workaround has been to use another computer with XP sp2 and attach the printer to that one via USB.  It's quite inconvienient.
I paid beaucoup bucks for this printer and there has been virtually no support from HP.  Can't even email support.  My next printer is definitely not going to be an HP.
lizzzi

Answer 1

I have spoken to the Tech support people at Adobe and they told me that PSE 2 is not compatible with 8 megapixels cameras and that I would have to upgrad to PSE 3.
What utter nonsense. Seriously. Until a few months ago I used PSE2 exclusively with my 20D, and it was just fine. I've since upgraded to CS2, but PSE2 works fine with 8MP images. Whomever you spoke to didn't know what they were talking about (or had recently been visited by the marketing division.) :)
Also, in PSE, I am using the Unsharp Mask in the filter menu. When using the Unsharp Mask with the various settings: Amount: 150%; Radius: 2.5 Pixels; and Threshold: 0
Here's something to try: drag your base layer (either the background layer or your cloned/cleaned up layer) to the new layer icon in the layers palette to copy the layer. Double click on the name of this new layer and type "sharpen" without the quotes. Change the blend mode of this layer to luminosity. With this layer selected, go to filters->unsharp mask. Start with these settings: radius .8 pixels, amount 300%, threshold 5. This should sharpen your image right up without distorting it. It may, however, add some noise, depending on the image. Click ok. If you want to back off on the sharpening a bit, you can reduce the opacity of the sharpen layer a bit. Remember that for best printing results you want the image to look a little crunchy. If you're going to use for a web image you can back off on the sharpening a bit (by lowering the opacity).