Printing Borderless in Lightroom 3 with Epson 3880

Hello everyone,
I'm having a tough time printing border less photos with my new Epson 3880 printer through Lightroom 3. I want to print a single image borderless.I set my printer driver for borderless (4x6 borerless retain size), then in the Print Module I make sure that my cell size is as big as my paper (4x6) and have all margins set to "0". It all looks great in the preview in LR, yet what I see on my screen is not what I get on the print. Usually it will have a white border, and sometimes it will have a white border and my photo will be cropped either form the left or the right. What am I doing wrong?

Yeah, this should be a very, very simple thing (even the most embarrassingly rudimentary photo programs do it as a basic function), but alas, it isn't. I use LR3 to process about 200-300 images a week. But if my wife wants a simple 4x6 print of a picture, I have to use Windows Picture Viewer. I went through two packages of 8x10 paper when I bought the program trying to accomplish this laughably basic task (maybe we don't always WANT to physically crop/mat the photos we print, Adobe); I nearly threw my printerS (yeah, I tried with two of them) out the window. Your description of the problem--the over cropping, the arbitrarily asymmetrical borders--are dead on. Great program, but god, is that a pain in the ***.

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