Bug 124636

Summary: Borderless print option not preserved, not passed to printer
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Kurt <kurt.fitzner>
Component: Printing and PDF exportAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.2.2.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Description Kurt 2019-04-09 23:17:26 UTC 
For certain printers (notably Brother multifunction) that are capable of borderless printing, LibreOffice does preserve the borderless setting and does not pass it on to the printer and it does not even preserve the setting between instances of setting the printer options.

For example:
File->Print, click Properties: Click Borderless, click ok.  Click Properties again and borderless has reverted to unchecked.

However:
File->Printer Settings, click Properties: Click Borderless, click ok.  Click Properties again and borderless remains checked, but then...
File->Print, click Properties: Borderless is again unchecked.

You can invoke the printer driver's config dialog infinite times through File->Printer Settings, and each time the "Borderless" option will have been preserved.  However as soon as you invoke it by File->Print, the borderless option is magically unchecked.

This is not the case in any other application.  Adobe Reader, Microsoft Word, even Wordpad all preserve the borderless setting in the printer dialog properly.

This is not the case with all printer drivers.  For example, Epson ESC/P-R printer drivers preserve and pass borderless to the printer and properly print borderless.
Comment 1 Kurt 2019-04-11 01:05:06 UTC 
It turns out this is a duplicate of 124639.  Some printer drivers (Brother notably) silently change the paper size when you select "borderless".  The paper size doesn't appear to change on the dialog, but internally it is the paper size the borderless checkbox is changing.  When "Use only paper size from printer preferences", as indicated in the comments of 124639, is set this issue resolves and the borderless checkbox setting is preserved and passed to the printer.
Comment 2 Kurt 2019-04-11 01:05:27 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 124639 ***