Need help printing landscape/portrait

marionbabich

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« on: March 10, 2011, 02:55:47 PM »

I've been printing with great results. Somehow I reset a setting that when Qimage is showing the layout in landscape it will print portrait. I'm wasting a lot of paper. It was working WYSIWYG but not now. What did I change?

Thanks for any quick replies. I have a lot of prints to get out and I hate wasting paper.

Marion


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Fred A

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Re: Need help printing landscape/portrait

« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2011, 03:12:14 PM »

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've been printing with great results. Somehow I reset a setting that when Qimage is showing the layout in landscape it will print portrait.

Sounds like you changed something in the driver. You need to mention the paper size, print size and printer type.
Not having any of this information, I would suggest that you check the preview screen upper right of the main screen, and if all looks right, then click on the tab below called Print Queue.
On there you will see the size of the print and the landscape print will have the horizontal size first. Example: and 8 x 10 print in landscape will be 10 x 8.
If you click the portrait orientation it will say 8 x 10.
If all looks right, then I suggest go to HELP and click on RESET PRINTER.

I am assuming the page is changing, not the image on the page...

Fred


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marionbabich

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Re: Need help printing landscape/portrait

« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 03:19:54 PM »

Thanks for the quick reply Fred. What I just found out is in my print driver (HP Z6100) I had the % of actual size set to 101. I changed it to the default, actual size, and did a print preview and it showed the print layout correctly being landscape. I will assume it will print correctly on the next print. This was driving me crazy because it was printing just fine. I have to learn not to screw around with print settings. LOL

Marion


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Fred A

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Re: Need help printing landscape/portrait

« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 03:25:39 PM »

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have to learn not to screw around with print settings. LOL

Ok Marion... I neglected to mention, in these words, that you can bank on what Qimage reports as the size of the print it is sending to the driver.
Therefore, any change in size or cropped off or rotated, is driver derived.

Glad it worked out!

Fred


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Ernst Dinkla

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Re: Need help printing landscape/portrait

« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 08:13:13 PM »

Quote from: marionbabich on March 10, 2011, 03:19:54 PM

Marion,

It can be a bit more complicated than you may expect. If you fit a landscape print page in the roll width with little paper to waste the print page may still rotate if the roll width as measured by the printer is slightly less than the roll's nominal size. In the driver the measured width is reported (at least in the Z3200 that I have). In your case it was the extra one percent print but it can also be a mm less on a 44" roll width.

met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst

Try: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/


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