Printing Area
FAQ ID: 8200531000
Release date: 19 May 2009
Solution
To ensure the best print quality, the printer allows a margin along each edge of media. The actual printable area will be the area inside these margins.
Recommended printing area 
: Canon recommends that you print within this area.
Printable area 
: The area where it is possible to print.
However, printing in this area can affect the print quality or the paper feed precision.
NOTE
Borderless Printing
- By selecting Borderless Printing option, you can make prints with no margins.
- When performing Borderless Printing, slight cropping may occur at the edges since the printed image is enlarged to fill the whole page.
- For Borderless Printing, use the following paper:
- Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss SG-201
- Photo Paper Pro Platinum PT-101
- Photo Paper Plus Glossy II PP-201
- Matte Photo Paper MP-101
Performing Borderless Printing on any other type of paper may substantially reduce printing quality and/or result in printouts with altered color hues.
- Borderless Printing is not available for legal, A5, B5, or B4 sized paper, envelopes, or art paper.
- Depending on the type of paper, Borderless Printing may reduce the print quality at the top and bottom edges of the paper or cause these parts to become smudged.
When performing Automatic Duplex Printing, the printable area will be 0.08 inches / 2 mm smaller at the top margin.
Letter, Legal
| Size | Printable Area (width x height) |
| Letter | 8.00 x 10.69 inches / 203.2 x 271.4 mm |
| Legal | 8.00 x 13.69 inches / 203.2 x 347.6 mm |
Recommended printing area
Printable area
Envelopes
| Size | Recommended Printing Area (width x height) |
| European DL | 4.06 x 7.50 inches / 103.2 x 190.5 mm |
| US Comm. Env. #10 | 3.86 x 8.34 inches / 98.0 x 211.8 mm |
Recommended printing area
Other Sizes than Letter, Legal, Envelopes
| Size | Printable Area (width x height) |
| A5 | 5.56 x 7.95 inches / 141.2 x 202.0 mm |
| A4 | 8.00 x 11.38 inches / 203.2 x 289.0 mm |
| A3 | 11.4 x 16.2 inches / 290.2 x 412.0 mm |
| A3+ (13" x 19" / 32.9 x 48.3 cm) | 12.7 x 18.7 inches / 322.2 x 475.0 mm |
| B5 | 6.90 x 9.80 inches / 175.2 x 249.0 mm |
| B4 | 9.9 x 14 inches / 250.2 x 356.0 mm |
| 4" x 6" / 10 x 15 cm | 3.73 x 5.69 inches / 94.8 x 144.4 mm |
| 4" x 8" / 10 x 20 cm | 3.73 x 7.69 inches / 94.8 x 195.2 mm |
| 5" x 7" / 13 x 18 cm | 4.73 x 6.69 inches / 120.2 x 169.8 mm |
| 11" x 17" (Tabloid) / 279.4 x 431.8 mm | 10.7 x 16.7 inches / 272.6 x 423.8 mm |
| 8" x 10" / 20 x 25 cm | 7.73 x 9.69 inches / 196.4 x 246.0 mm |
| 10" x 12" / 254.0 x 304.8 mm | 9.7 x 11.7 inches / 247.2 x 296.8 mm |
| Wide | 3.73 x 6.80 inches / 94.8 x 172.6 mm |
Recommended printing area
Printable area
Sizes for Art Paper
When using Fine Art Paper "Photo Rag" or non Canon genuine specialty paper, printing is not done in a 1.38 inches / 35 mm margin along the top and bottom edges. A limit is set to prevent printing along a 1.38 inches / 35 mm margin on the top and bottom edges when a paper size for Art Paper is selected in the printer driver.Fine Art A4, Fine Art A3, Fine Art A3+
| Size | Printable Area (width x height) |
| Fine Art A4 | 8.0 x 8.9 inches / 203.2 x 227.0 mm |
| Fine Art A3 | 11.4 x 13.8 inches / 290.2 x 350.0 mm |
| Fine Art A3+ | 12.7 x 16.3 inches / 322.2 x 413.0 mm |
Recommended printing area
Fine Art Letter
| Size | Printable Area (width x height) |
| Fine Art Letter | 8.0 x 8.2 inches / 203.2 x 209.4 mm |
Recommended printing area
Applicable Models
- PIXMA iX7000