Thx!

I'll give B&H a look.

Best Regards

I appreciate your thoughful response.

I have seen other posts about printing on say 5x7 and cutting down to 4x6, but none of the posts that I've seen mention any specifics about suitable rotary cutters.

I have an (admittedly cheap) rotary cutter, but I wouldn't trust it to cut a straight line.

Perhaps you or others could suggest a cutter which can provide accurate and repeatable cuts. TIA

Best Regards

Some option screen caps

Best Regards

QImage Ultimate 2023.115
Canon PRO-300 (2 months old)
Canon Pro Platinum 4x6 Paper (measured as 4 x 6)

I have been trying to print 4x6 images with a fixed 0.25" border on all sides. (having now been educated on the horrors of borderless printing )

What is actually produced is a bit strange; the top and left side borders are equal at about 9/32" (~ 7mm), the right side and bottom borders are equal at about 7/32" (~ 5.5mm).

The 'error' of +1/32" on two borders and -1/32" on two borders seems trivial, but it is obvious.

I have endeavored to make sure all the borderless expansion options are turned off in the driver and that the QImage Ultimate options are set correctly.

Fiddling with the paper does not seem to affect the output, it appears to be repeatable.  Maybe this is as good as the printer can produce?

I would appreciate any thoughts anyone may have.  TIA

Best Regards

PS. Is it 256K per attachment or 256K total for all attachments?

Your point is well taken on borders and preventing print damage. 

Those images I print for friends are always in PrintFile archival sleeves so damage is not an issue.

Mark

MelW,

Thanks for the tip 

Mike,

You're absolutely correct!  I am printing borderless and when I disabled the expansion, the full image printed.  You were also correct in that there are a couple of white 'slivers'.

But there is a rational explanation and no amount of configuration will change it.  I'm ok with that, I'll just have to remember to not crop images too close in the viewfinder.

Thanks!

Mark

Fred,

Thanks for your prompt reply.  Unfortunately no change.  I've attached some more screen caps.  Image D gives you some idea of the space between the wingtip and image edge.  The print actually cuts the wingtip off.  The manual crop is a 4x6. Image F shows the basic image data out of the camera.

Mark

Edit. To be clear, the scissors was not on, but I printed another anyway for clarity.  Looking at the QIMage vs printed image, the image is being trimmed on all 4 sides before being expanded, not just the sides.

I have attached two images, the first (QImage 20190415A) is a screen capture of QImage Ultimate showing a photograph to be printed after adjustment and cropping. The red boxes denote the space by the aircraft  wingtip and prop.  First image is too big, you'll have to trust me that there is significant room between the left hand edge and the prop and between the wingtip and the right hand edge.

The attched image (QImage 20190415B) is a scan of the print produced, clearly the wingtip has been clipped and the prop at the edge of the print.

It almost seems as if about a 1/4 Inch has been subtracted from each edge of the image, and then the reduced result is expanded to fit onto the 4x6 paper.

I have use QImage Ultimate and its earlier versions for a while now (and like it very much), but have never been able to print what I see.  I have tried numerous experiments and burned lots of paper and ink trying to get this to work, all to no avail.

It's undoubtedly something simple....TIA

Best Regards,

Mark