Unwanted 4mm border on 4x6 prints

My Lightroom 3 suddenly started leaving a white 4mm border at the right-hand edge of 4x6mm landscape prints.  The printer is fine (Epson R2880) because it will print perfect 4x6s from Windows Print, and also from my wife's laptop running LR 3.  I haven't changed any settings, and reading this forum didn't find the answer.  Any advice please?  Thanks, Matthew

So you drove me to it!
I tried 4x6"paper (100x150mm using a ruler) on my R2880 feeding 4" edge leading. This resulted in a trailing edge white margin of about 4.3mm despite various setting changes. It looks very much like an edge detection problem - the printer stopping before the end of the sheet - which I had read about elsewhere recommending feeding a longer sheet under the 4x6" sheet - how I don't know.
As part of testing I named and saved a preset in the Epson driver for 4x6 borderless for portrait orientation.  Having 'fussed about' with 'retain size' versus 'expansion' I opted for retain size and enlarged the cell in LR - which surprisingly became possible - currently it is set at 104.3x154.6mm and printed a landscape shot without trailing edge white margin followed by a portrait shot again without margin. Puzzled but happy I went to save the settings for 4x6 borderless in the Epson driver.  Saving under the same name offers a comparison between saved and 'registered' settings (what the printer is working to) which showed a saved size with a length of 5.81" - 4.3mm short of the 'registered' length for the successful prints!
I have no idea why the saved version would have been saved as a shorter length but it corresponded to the white margin and it has disappeared when the printer has somehow registered the required size.  My revised saved preset is now 4x6" (101.6x152.4mm) - mm are not an option. I am hoping this is a permanent fix but think it would be prudent to save a portrait and a landscape version of the preset. 
Where the problem arises I do not know but suspect that Epson paper sizes do not correct themselves from erroneous starting points until something is changed - perhaps as little as landscape to portrait . btw  I am using LR4.3RC, LR3.6 Win7 pro 64bit.
Let us know if you find a similar discrepancy in saved settings.
Your tally of prints suggests that something changes between and within batches as if the paper size is correctly registered for some of the prints only.  Is there any difference between or within the batches for example landscape versus portrait?  Clutching at straws but I can't see why LR should make changes - but it definitely interacts with the Epson driver and its settings.    
Message was edited by: effeegee Typo correction and addendum re LR size changes
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