Photosmart c4480 cutting off top of photos

hi, i bought this printer today and thought i would give it a test run on photos from a memory card on 6x4 paper but it keeps cutting the top of the photo off a little bit
am i doing something wrong? is there a way of stopping this happening?
thanks mandy

It has to do with how all the camera sensors are made.
You can't change the aspect ratio in the camera. You need to crop the photo using some sort of photo modification software. I think all the picture editors have a crop function. So, the picture is a 4x3 aspect ratio. You need to cut about 10-12% off the short dimension on the computer.
Of course, the dorky workaround is to always take pictures with about 5% of stuff you don't care about on the top and bottom of the picture. So, you zoom out a little, and, when you print the picture, it will crop stuff that's okay to crop. Of course, if the pictures are already taken, that doesn't work.
Sorry about the frustration!
Let me know how it goes!
CF
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