I went into this a few years ago when I was replying to someone on here: Tiled preview doesn't match printed pages? - #5 by Grace
And at the time, this was correct as far as acrobat reader is concerned. I don’t know if things have changed since, but normally, when one is printing a borderless photo, you would be printing a jpg, png, svg or any of a multitude of other image files, and will set your printer to bordeless printing.