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Author Topic: Can't Get Page To Print Landscape On Roll - z3200  (Read 2868 times)
William Chitham
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« on: July 08, 2019, 12:21:00 PM »

Qimage seems to have changed behaviour with respect to print rotation on rolls. Whatever I do it will always make the printer put the short dimension of the sheet across the roll even if the sheet size would fit comfortably turned through 90 degrees. For example a 20" x 30" print would fit happily across the width of a 36" roll but nowadays it always prints short side across the width. Qimage also seems to overcome the Autorotate function in the z3200 driver. Is there a new checkbox somewhere that locks the orientation of the page?

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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2019, 12:51:32 PM »

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Qimage seems to have changed behaviour with respect to print rotation on rolls. Whatever I do it will always make the printer put the short dimension of the sheet across the roll even if the sheet size would fit comfortably turned through 90 degrees. For example a 20" x 30" print would fit happily across the width of a 36" roll but nowadays it always prints short side across the width. Qimage also seems to overcome the Autorotate function in the z3200 driver. Is there a new checkbox somewhere that locks the orientation of the page?
Bill,
 I am not versed in the vagaries of the HPZ3200 driver, but Qimage does have the lock orientation button for you.
Click the PRINT TAB. About 2/3 down the right side, you will see a padlock all the way to the right edge.
Lock that, and you should be fine.

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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2019, 01:23:20 PM »

Thanks Fred, familiar with that button but it only affects the orientation of the image in the page. I'm talking about the orientation of the page on the roll.
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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2019, 01:28:50 PM »

Bottom of main screen are page orientation buttons.
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2019, 02:09:10 PM »

It sounds like you have a 36 inch wide page and it's putting a single 20x30 in portrait orientation, using 30 inches of length instead of 20.  In a case like that, you could just click on the print and click the rotate button... but I can't get mine to do what you said: mine places the 20x30 in landscape to begin with.  See the attached screen snap.  When I create a 36 inch wide page and add a 20x30 print, the print goes on the page in landscape orientation, using 20 inches of length when using any of the "Intelli" placement methods.  The algorithm, however, is more complex than just considering width and height.  For example, if your width was 44 inches, it might choose to place the print portrait because it knows if you add another print at the same size after that, it could fit 2 across at 20x30, thus using only 30 inches of length instead of the 40 required if it placed them landscape.  It does this because, in order to keep "sane" layouts, it won't go back and re-rotate all already-placed prints so it has to do a little anticipating of what you might do next.

But in your case, I'm not sure what is going on since I can't match your experience.  If you can post a screen shot, that would give us an idea of all the variables like the print size vs indicated page size, etc.

Regards,
Mike
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