Epson 3800 or 3880
mburke:
Does anyone know if Qimage will let you print a longer length than the 37" (?) that these printers allow? I would imagine you could set up a roll behind the printer and feed from the back but I don't know if you can override the driver. Anyone have any success doing something like a 16 x48?
I currently use a 2200 (does really nice prints) but I am looking to get a little wider printer and I'm not sure if I want to go to the 4800 series because of desk space and cost. I hear some wonderful things about the quality of the 3800 series and it seems to be a good bang for the buck, except for the length issue.
Thanks,
Mike
Fred A:
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16 x48?
Mike,
To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to user define a page larger than the limits set in the driver. There is no provision for roll paper..
If you open User defined size, you can see the limits;17 x 37.4 inches.
Don't know how to get around that.
Fred
mburke:
Thanks Fred,
In the past with my 2200 I have printed some canvas and luster prints that were 12.5 x 35 (or approx 3:1) I thought I would like to do the same with the wider printer (i.e. 16 x 48). I guess I'll have to live with 16 x 37. Thanks for the info.
Mike
mburke:
I have done some extensive searching on google for epson 3800 roll paper and after reading thru a bunch of posts on lots of websites it looks like some people have tried cutting roll paper and then using a rip (which none of them identify). If I'm only doing an occasional pano (16x48 or 60) I could live with that as long as the rip wasn't over 200-300 dollars. Any way, if anyone has heard of anything that might work I'd sure like to know. For 1,200 the 3800 sure looks like a great printer.
I'm assuming that rips would work with Qimage, because I sure wouldn't want to give that up.
Thanks,
Mike
BrianPrice:
Mike
Rips don't work with QI, they replace it - a Rip is basically a third party printer driver which replaces the epson driver and QI combination.
The problem I would have with printing longer than 37" is that Epson aren't famous for over-engineering their printers, and the 3880 paper feed may not be up to printing longer lengths reliably.
Brian
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