Positioning image on page for printing in Elements 8

In Elements 6, in the "print" dialogue, you could uncheck "center image", and print an image anywhere you chose on the paper. I use
it because I print small decal images on A4 paper at the top, cut them off and can then reuse the (expensive) paper multiple times.
Where is this option in Elements 8? When I try to move the image by dragging in the preview, it moves "behind" the window, but the actual print position remains the same, and the image is not printed in full. Where can I set the position of the printed image on the page? Surely this useful feature hasn't been removed?
best regards,
Matt

Thanks Bob for your ideas. As Elo and Bryhy have mentioned, I find it very useful without leaving the Editor workspace to produce small test prints for tweaking colour, contrast, etc.before commiting to a final large print so it is important to maintain continuity. I have used PSE from Day 1, I have found it an excellent program and I was just completely dumbfounded to discover this facility had disappeared from PSE8. All they had to do was leave it there - the software was already written for all the previous versions. Elo speculates that removing it could be a ploy by Adobe to dumb down the program and thereby push the more advanced user towards the full Photoshop. On the other hand, Adobe do not seem to have dumbed down the editing capabilities which remain quite powerful so it could be they just did not realise how useful this print facility was to some users. Either way, I feel it is a reasonable expectation that upgrades should retain existing facilities or some equivalent alternative.
I continue to try to make contact with Adobe to see whether they feel able to restore the facility with an immediate upgrade or that it will be reinstated in the next version. I have submitted three cases, two simply referred me to the help manual and the thrid was deleted without reply. I then wrote to the Chief Executive of Adobe Systems Europe in February but so far no reply has been received so it does not look like I am going to get one. I now intend to write to the Cheif Exec in the US.

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