2:3 ratio is 4x6? Printed picture is cropped

[Guest]

Photo has 2:3 aspect ratio. Using XP Printing, I'm printing a 4x6 borderless
picture and the printed picture gets cropped top and bottom. My printer is HP
8450.

Using Irfanview, same settings, the 2:3 photo prints with a white border on
the sides.

2:3 ratio is 4x6 inches?

 

[RobertVA]

Photo has 2:3 aspect ratio. Using XP Printing, I'm printing a 4x6 borderless
picture and the printed picture gets cropped top and bottom. My printer is HP
8450.

Using Irfanview, same settings, the 2:3 photo prints with a white border on
the sides.

2:3 ratio is 4x6 inches?

4/2=2 and 6/2=3 so yes.

So any margins on 4X6 means something is producing non square pixels.

 

[Guest]

Thanks,
Margin means border?

What is "non square pixels". How would this change the aspect ratio when I
print?

In (borderless) preview the picture looks ok, when printed the border shows
up.

I'm using Irfanview, I'll try a different edit program for cropping the 2:3

 

[RobertVA]

Thanks,
Margin means border?

What is "non square pixels". How would this change the aspect ratio when I
print?

In (borderless) preview the picture looks ok, when printed the border shows
up.

I'm using Irfanview, I'll try a different edit program for cropping the 2:3

Non square pixels would mean they are taller than they are wide OR they
are wider than they are tall. In those cases the measured proportions of
the printout wouldn't match the proportions of the pixel counts in the
image (thus the picture wouldn't fit properly on a 4X6 sheet of photo
paper despite the number of horizontal and vertical pixels being a 2:3
ratio).

The term "border" is a bit ambiguous, as it usually refers to some sort
of printed line or frame around a picture or text box, but sometimes a
blank margin around text or a picture is referred to as a "border" when
printer manufacturers call a printout "borderless" when it can print all
the way to the edge of the paper.

 

[Guest]

My camera, Olympus C-750, can shoot 3:2, 2288x1520 = 1.50

The printed 4x6 picture, using Windows Picture and Fax, was cropped on the
sides and top, the right side was cropped more the the left.
Is there a zoom setting?

 

[Jimmy]

This article mentions "non square pixels" in relationship to video, not
printing a digital image from a computer.

My printed picture is larger not distorted. I sent my 3:2 picture to a
friend to have him print a 4x6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel

 

[Vince]

I have experienced this type of problem, which was resolved by
rotating the image 90 degrees, or by changing from landscape layout to
portrait layout or vice versa.