Hi, Fred. Good luck on the stress test. I appreciate the "butt in"--a picture is worth a thousand words. Taking inspiration from your illustrations, here is one the shows exactly the scenario and the trim lines I'm hoping have QImage Ultimate print for me.

Thanks for the responses. Sorry, but I failed to mentioned that the shape/proportion of the images do not always match the shape/proportions of the template. So when they are resized by QI to fit within the template, the space between the edge of the image and the edge of the template can be unequal.

That's where the problem arises, because my understanding of (and experience with) QI Borders and Mark Edges is that the marks are always relative to the edge of the printed image area, not the edge of the template. I was hoping there was some way to get the trim lines along the edge of the template.

Cheers!

Brad

A requirement that comes up for me quite often is this. My clients want uncropped images center printed to fit on a specific sheet size, e.g. 12x8, with for example a 1/4" minimum white border all around. However, I don't actually print on 12x8 sheets of paper--I simulate these sheets on 24" or wider roll paper by printing 2-up or 4-up, etc. and then trim out the individual "sheets". I can do this with, say, a 12x8 template placed 4-up on a 24" wide roll paper, with the image border set to 0.25", auto-crop off, with template/centred layout. This will resize and position the images correctly.

The problem is how to get Qimage to print the trim lines between the images. Any ideas?

Thanks so much.

Cheers!

Brad

Arrrgh!  That's EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks so much!

Cheers!

Brad

I tried the image lock "off" and "on", but it made no difference.

It might help if I explained better what I'm trying to achieve. This is just a specific case of something I need to do frequently.

I'm trying to make a test strip of a portrait-oriented file (24" x 30") on a landscape-oriented sheet (a 24" x 6" form set up on a roll of canvas) at full size. The portion of the image I want to print runs across the width of the image. However, Qimage rotates the image and forces the strip to run down the height of the image and it seems to provide no way to change that orientation. This issue occurs when the sheet/page size is smaller than the image size (which of course is always the case with test strips). BTW, the test strip feature in the Full Page Editor behaves the same way. This is not a problem when the orientation of the file is the same as the sheet.

The only way I know of to get what I want in this case is to crop out the test strip in Photoshop. I'd much rather be able to do this in Qimage.

Cheers!

Brad

My scroll-wheel works, as you say, but it is still scrolling. And I need all those sizes and more...I had about a twenty more custom sizes in Qimage SE which I will be adding to QU shortly.

By the way, as I type this, the Print Properties dialog box is sitting over my browser window, obscuring it even as I type. It does this from time to time and I haven't figure out the pattern. All I'm saying is I think this dialog box is still in need of some improvements.

Cheers!

Brad

I have the same issue as the OP...the Print Properties box shows a scroll bar but won't allow me to resize the window to get rid of the scrolling. I have attached a clip.

Cheers!

Brad

Sneaky, perhaps...but frequently annoying. The way it works now, it will pop up over the help window and even other applications. This jumping back and forth is distracting. Since I have lots of screen space on my monitor, I would be much happier if it just stayed where I drag it. Is it at all possible to make that a general configuration option?

Thanks so much.

Cheers!

Brad

Greetings! I am using QU 113 (but it applies to earlier versions too).

I often print smaller sections of large images by printing them on small form/sheet sizes (on rolls) with "Auto Cropping ON". However, when I do this, the "rotate" buttons often don't work. I.e. clicking the "rotate" buttons will NOT always change the orientation of the image on the sheet. This is OK in many cases, as the orientation is what I need. However, if the image is, say, a 24" x 30" (300 dpi) file, i.e. portrait-orientation, and the sheet is, say, 24" x 6", i.e. landscape-orientation, then Qimage automatically rotates the image. If I actually want the 24" width of the image to be the 24" width of the sheet, there doesn't seem to be a way to do it--the "rotate" buttons just don't do anything in this case.

Is there any way around this?

Thanks.

Cheers!

Brad

Thanks Fred. The TIFF was saved with LZW compression. I resaved it with NO compression and YAAAY! I'm printing it now.

Thanks so much for the quick and insightful assistance.

Cheers!

Brad

I am a long-time Qimage user (Studio Edition) now on v2010.208. I use Qimage in a commercial printshop setting under Win 7 32-bit on a quad-core machine.

Past experience tells me that even if Qimage should "Image Read Error", I can still print the file (and a get a preview in the printer driver). However, I am having no such luck with one particular file that happens to be 17017 x 17137 pixels at 400 ppi (42.54 in. x 42.84 in.). It is a compressed TIFF with LZW. It originated as a 3-layer PSD, but the PSD wouldn't print either, so I saved it out as the compressed TIFF. Both files appear with the "Image Read Error" in the thumbnail and in the print preview. If I click to print, both files produce the error "Qimage could not load the file:" and the print session is aborted.

Since these are commercial jobs, I really need to find a way to print them and I'm open to any suggestions.

Thanks so much!

Cheers!

Brad

Greetings! I would like to request a feature enhancement to the Full Page Editor window. When the Cropping tab selected, it is currently possible to drag the Zoom slider and when you do that, Qimage displays the zoom factor and the effective print resolution. I frequently adjust the slider to try to hit a specific print resolution and it would be very handy if I could just type the number in, rather than "slide" to it. I do this for creating test prints and I have never been able to get the hang of the test strip feature.

Thanks.

Cheers!

Brad Grigor
Turning Point Arts

Thanks Mike, very well said and so true. I am a digital artist and I also print images and do art reproduction for other people for a living. I come up against the "300 ppi" myth all the time. Yet, in practice, I have produced amazing prints on canvas from point-and-shoot cameras at effective resolutions as low as 79 ppi. By "amazing", I mean I didn't expect it to look as good as it did and the client was delighted. And those prints were done with Qimage.

Cheers!

Brad

Hello everyone and thanks so much for the quick replies. Just to clarify, the original image had already been converted to B&W but it was in an RGB colour mode. The only reason I changed the colour mode to Grayscale was to reduce the file size. I had never done that in the past and I have printed a lot of B&W through QImage in RGB colour mode with exceptional results. NOTE: I use the Prepress color settings because I do a lot of press work, and Dot Gain 20% is a reasonable default when preparing grayscale images for halftone printing on uncoated papers. It didn't make any visible change on screen in Photoshop, whereas the other profiles, e.g. Gamma 2.2, will. So I was a bit taken aback when the print density was so far off. However, this is no big deal for me--I will just stick to my original tried-and-true workflow.

Cheers!

Brad

Hi, Mike.

I recently noted a problem in printing grayscale image files. The files in question were PSD files, grayscale colour mode, "Dot Gain 20%" profile embedded (I usually keep my Creative Suite sync at North American Prepress 2). The prints were coming out much darker than on screen in Photoshop. After recalibrating my monitor (I use a ColorMunki Photo), same result. I doubled checked both Photoshop and Qimage were using the correct monitor profile (they were).

Then I noticed that the preview in Qimage (Studio Edition 2009 v268) was also much darker than in Photoshop. The prints were matching Qimage, but Qimage wasn't matching Photoshop.

The other thing I noticed...with the grayscale images, I was getting a "Gamma not 1.0" error. I did several forces setting resets to try to clear this, but Qimage would always give me this error with the grayscale images.

To resolve the problem, I converted the images to RGB colour mode with Adobe RGB profile and all was well. Qimage preview matched Photoshop and so did the prints.

AFAIK, this could be the first time I've actually tried to print a grayscale image file with Qimage. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Brad Grigor
Turning Point Arts