My Uncle wanted me to print up a full-page image of this pony at the farm he works at. When I'm printing up pictures, I prefer the borderless format but Canon made borderless printing a hit-or-miss process, at least on my system.
Here's an image of what Canon claims is borderless.
I've had too many pictures that came out this way even when the print preview shows a perfectly borderless image. I blame that bloated mess, the software that comes with the printer called My Image Garden. They use to have a simpler app, can't mind its name now that gave you proper borderless, every time. So I found the simple secret to printing borderless on my Canon. Don't Use Their Software.
So I decided to experiment with Xnview - www.xnview.com/en/
My image viewer of choice. So I open up the image and press Ctrl + P (note: Ctrl+P works for most Windows apps) or click on the Printer icon in the top menu.
It usually opens first in the Layout tab. So in the Page layout section click on Single - Stretch to page. What-you-see is not what you get, even though it shows a slight border around the preview image, it does print up borderless.
Now switch to the Printer tab and click on the Configuration ... button.
This takes you to the Print Setup window, click on Properties...
My options are, working down from the top, Photo printing, check Preview before printing, Borderless Printing (gets checked automatically), Media Type: Glossy Photo Paper, Paper Size: letter 8.5x11, Print Quality: Standard. You can bump up the quality if you want. Portrait or Landscape depends on your image, and number of copies.
Then click on Ok which sends you back to Xnview printer setup. Before you press the Print button, if this is the first time printing from this program, you might want to switch to the Header/footer tab and uncheck the Footer option that seems to be set by default. If left checked, it will print the Page number on the bottom of your image.
Click on Print. Finally some decent, borderless pics. Just for the record, I wouldn't mind the border so much if it was very tiny and even around the picture. Also, this is on a Canon MX492.