Slightly off center

Epson has referred me to Adobe… My Epson ProStylus 7890 prints slightly off center when set to center from the Photoshop CS6 print dialog box. How can I fix this in Photoshop?

That would mean at best that the Epson printer driver plays nice with Apple's Preview but not with your version of Photoshop.
Maybe if you gave us sensible details about your setup and a more exact description of what you mean by off-center (vertically? horizontally? by how much? what size prints, etc.)…
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If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand, such as your platform (Mac or Win), exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop and of Bridge, machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, video card specs, what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far, what error message(s) you receive, if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them, etc., someone may be able to help you.
A screen shot could be very helpful too.
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I use the copy/ paste function to copy graphs from a graphing program (Kaleidagraph) into illustrator. Whenever I paste a line graph with error bars, the error bars are always slightly off center to the object they are supposed to be centered on. When I paste the same graph into another program, the error bars are centered so I know this is an illustrator problem. Other components might be off center as well, but it is only the error bars that are noticeable.
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Though that's not quite my problem. The line graphs I'm talking about will have several shapes in a line, (ie. a circle). When I make a graph, the circles will have a straight line down the middle of the circle (the error bar). When I than past this graph into illustrator, illustrator for some reasons off sets the straight lines of the center of the circle. The off set is less than 1pt, but is still noticeable. And it does it every time.

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I am creating a a dvd and when I drop the jpeg onto the main menu button it looks fine, but when I start encoding it I can see that it shifts to being a little bit off center?
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pgraff wrote:
Hey, I recently purchased a macbook, and Ive noticed that the isight camera built into it seems slightly off center to the left (the lens inside of the "square". I don't know if this is a huge issue, but I am wondering if this is normal or could possible affect the computer, as I've heard that in some cases the camera can interfere with the microphone.
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