Yes Qimage is processing the job and sending it to the printer, the printer receives the job from Qimage but acts like there is no data there as it progress bar on the epson driver status window goes from left to right instantly. So I am guessing there is something in the way Qimage ultimate processes the file for print that the epson driver does not recognize or like. And yes if I turn on print preview on the epson driver the image will show up on the preview but when you click print as I explained above the file is sent to the epson driver but it does not print.
This is a newer PC with 64 bit windows 10 pro, the r1800 is an old printer but it has always and still provides excellent print quality so I have seen no reason to upgrade it to a newer printer.
I tried changing the spool settings as you recommended and unfortunately that didn't help the problem either.
I guess I will try to track down my old qimage pro lifetime license and install it to see if it works.
Thanks for the help..
Chadd