Brother driver won't print complete drawing

[snipper]

Hi,

I'd like to print a Illustrator vector drawing at 100% without borders using Preview. I seems so simple:

Select
- Paper size: A3 borderless (the size of the drawing art board in illustrator)
- Scale: 100%

However, no matter what paper size (A3 or A3 Borderless) or preset (Scale to 100% / Scale to Fit: Print entire Image / Fill Entire Paper or even Scale to 80%) is chosen, the drawing that comes out of the Brother MFC-J6920DW is always cut off ±1,5% from all sides. This is about 1/4 inch or 6 mm.

After more testing I started to think the file was saved cut off this way by Illustrator, but Photoshop renders it just fine.

I even thought of scaling down the drawing, adding the same amount of border that is cut off to counter balance it, but I think you all agree that would be a very lame solution.

Is this a know bug or is there another way to print borderless at 100%?

 

[snipper]

Meanwhile, I contacted Brother and they said it's just not possible in OS X.

Then I received a pdf from someone else (my accountant) with a grey background, that printed borderless just fine. OS X Photos also prints borderless. This leads me to believe that it's not a printer driver limitation but a problem with Preview and Illustrator.

 

[CoastalOR]

Try a workaround test. Save your file as a pdf and try printing or save your file as a bitmap and try printing with Photos.

 

[snipper]

It is more complicated that I thought, yet there is a workaround for borderless printing at 100%.