Epson P50 - cannot print watermark on borderless prints .. why not?

[Rupert49]

I have a new Epson Stylus Photo P50 with which I am so far very pleased; the print quality looks good, the colours are as I see them on my monitor (so far without the need for screen calibration) and the print times seem reasonable enough to me.

Looking again through the manual software I came across the facility to print a watermark which, because I'm about to shoot another wedding, I thought might be quite a cool thing to do for the proof album photos. Unfortunately the printer tells me that this facility is not available for borderless prints, so I'll need to resort to PSE7 if I want to incorporate a watermark.

Since most people these days seem to go for borderless prints, does anyone know why watermarking via the printer in this way isn't possible?

[LargeFormat]

It seems that it isn't just your printer, I don't know about makes other than Epson.

Anybody?

[Malcolm_Stewart]

I can't answer for your specific problem, but it's a similar restriction to what I've found on my R220, a sort of earlier version of the P50.

On my R220, I can print borderless on A4, but not on A5. I can't buy Epson A5 paper, so I use a guillotine to cut A4 to two A5 sheets. I can print borderless to three other sizes of paper, but not A5. (I wonder if I could hack this in the registry as these sizes form a subset of a much wider range of paper sizes?)

I discovered a short time ago, that the US printer driver (available from the web) doesn't even offer A5 as a supported paper size; and that to get A5, I had to re-install the European driver from the supplied CD.


Epson knows best! Annoying