HP 815MFP - Manual (Page 85)

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tell me about unprintable areas
‘account for unprintable area’ option
The margins we set in the Setup tab dialog are the copy’s ‘output
margins’. But the printer itself also creates margins. The size of your
printer’s margins or so-called ‘unprintable area’ depends on the
printer model and cannot be changed. You should consider the
printer’s margins as your minimum margins and they will be in your
output whether you want them to or not.
The ‘Account for unprintable area’ option is found in the Margins
dialog and it lets you compensate for these uncontrollable margins.
Selecting the option lets you economize paper usage by keeping
unneeded margin space down to a minimum. Selecting the option
will tell the application to deduct the printer’s enforced margins from
your output margins so the total margins are as you specified for the
copy. For duplicating originals without margins, you would not want
output margins either and thus the option should be deselected.
To use the option, you have to enter your printer’s unprintable area
values as specified in your printer documentation. This is done
through the Setup tab > Printer > Unprintable Area button.
Here are some guidelines on using the ‘Account for unprintable
area’ option.
If you select ‘Account for unprintable area’:
• You will also have selected a minimum output margin at least
equal to the printer’s margins. The program will automatically
update the values in the Setup tab’s margin values to reflect
this. If you set output margins to zero or lower than the
printer’s, then the printer’s margins are used and updated as
the output margins.
• If the output margins you set are higher than the printer’s, then
the printer’s margins are deducted from the output margins
meaning the scanner software only adds on the margins that
the printer is missing. This means that your total margin,
measured from the paper’s physical edges, will be as you
specified in the Setup tab’s Margins option.
• The cropping effect on the original is always determined by the
value displayed on the Setup tab’s Margin button whether it
was automatically calculated or not. The actual cropping effect
will be as displayed in your WYSIWYG preview.