How can I make a document print without borders in Microsoft Word 2010?

Question

I've come across a really irritating problem in Microsoft Word related to printing with my Kodak Hero 5.1 printer. This printer is capable of printing single sided sheets fully borderless from within the printer properties menu:

However, as soon as I click OK Word seems to immediately change it back, so that if I reopen the printer properties the check box is not ticked and the document does not print without borders.

This is definitely related to Word, as if I safe as a PDF then print it from Adobe Reader it retains the borderless check box once set and prints successfully to the very edge of the paper. This workaround is working for now but is extremely cumbersome and I'd ideally like to allow borderless printing directly from Word.

Here are my print settings from Word itself, I have tried putting the margins down to 0 however this is not the same effect as borderless printing and doesn't work at all.

Solution

Try removing the margins from your document. Currently it says 'Normal Margins' in your print settings. Try setting the value to custom and then set zero margins. If that doesn't work you can create a new paper type called 'Borderless' with custom size and margin, so that Word does not try to impose A4 specification to the printer driver.

Comments

[Karan]

Doesn't your printer driver provide a way to save your custom settings as defaults, so that they persist for any app that uses the printer?

[Rory]

Came back to this earlier today - with everything up to date both Word and Publisher refuse to print without borders though Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop have no problems at all. Irritating!

[Rory]

Thanks for the answer - unfortunately I'd already tried this (mentioned in the question) and it didn't work. I no longer have the printer mentioned - instead having a Canon MG3200 which keeps the borderless setting without any problems. The problem appears to have been with the Kodak software.