^^Many thanks once again!

I was able to track down an official (HP specification, that is) document and here are the details:
Here is a link to the document i found: http://gocip.com/downloads/hp-designjet-z3200-photo-printer.pdf
They state the maximum print length is 91.4 meters.

Yeah baby! ! !

Terry,

Thank you for the reference and quick reply!

Can you suggest a source to find out the capability of the drivers for a Z3200 44” printer?

Is there a max print size for Qimage?

If this question has been asked before, can someone provide a link?

Anywho, someone asked if I can make a 12’ long edition of one of my images and I haven’t tried doing anything over 8’ before.

If there is a chance for a problem, at what point would it become obvious? I’d hate to start the print to have it abort at some point and waste a lot of ink print media.

Thanks for any feedback on this!!

I guess that explains it. How do i go about getting a newer edition and does the upgrade alter my configuration? I'm very busy currently and don't have time to fuss with things.

Thanks!

Thank you for the reply and image! It appears that the edition I have does not have that feature, or at least have it at the location illustrated in the image. Is this something that perhaps can be toggled?

I print on canvas media and find that once I’ve applied a protective coating to the canvas surface, that the media shrinks between about 1% and 3%. This is a bit problematic when my goal is to make a finished product a certain size. I read someplace that Qimage has a feature to use with canvas that can compensate for this shrinkage. I’ve never looked into it but would appreciate some guidance on where I can learn how to implement this and related considerations. I'm using Ultimate, ver 2012.211

TIA

Awesome!

Thanks!!

Hi All,

I’ve been an owner of Qimage for several years. I'm currently using the Ultimate version. This is a great tool and once I started using it, I never looked back.

I sometimes use Qimage to print business cards. I have a business card image template made from a .tif file and then reduce the size of the image to about 3.5” x 1.5” After that I make copies in Qimage of the image by hitting the Ins key to first make a row of images, then use select all and hit the Ins key to make a 2nd row and so on until I have about 200 images.

By the time I’ve about ¾ filled the area, Qimage becomes verrrrry slow to respond. Is there a better way to do this?

Also, is there a way in Qimage to put about a 1 mm border around each card?

Thanks!

While you didn’t suggest doing so, I was able to duplicate the problem without using Qimage.

With the help of HP support I used their raster driver instead of their postscript driver and that solved the problem. I asked for a consult from their L2 support about why their postscript driver can’t produce specific border sizes. Hope to hear back in the next day or two.

The printer jobs start way faster when using the raster driver.

The key detail here from the perspective of Qimage support is that Qimage did not cause this issue.

Justan Elk

I am a registered owner of Qimage Deluxe.

I have Qimage version V2012.211.

I have been using Qimage to print to my HP Z3100 printer and have used it in different versions for about 5 years now. It has worked great.

Beginning in October 2013, I bought a HP Z3200 and have been using Qimage for that. Since I made the transition to the new printer, the printer margins have not been accurate. For instance, if I set a 1” margin on the left and a 1” margin on the right, I end up with a 1.12” margin on the left and a .88” margin on the right. In addition the top and bottom margins are usually about .25” too large. I contacted HP support and they suspect this is caused by the Qimage program.

Can you please advise as to how to remedy this?

Thank you for your assistance!

Justan Elk

I have Qimage Ultimate installed on a computer.

I want to relocate the configuration of the Qimage install, including, if possible, all the custom print sizes and Qimage Jobs I've set up, to a new computer.

Can this be done? If so, is there a written procedure for this somewhere?

TIA

Fred,

Thank you for your comments.

Many years ago I worked as a consultant to a company that made a product named Desqview. This was a multi-tasking operating system  that pre-dated Windows.

Desqview had to get along with a large number of other programs. This was a daunting technical challenge, to say the least. Their solution was to buy most programs (and get the program vendors to send to them, when possible) and see how the program might have problems with Desqview and then to solve the problems. They also had on-going contact with a number of program vendors, to show the vendors how they could make their programs not only get along but to take advantage of the OS. They were very successful with these approaches.

Qimage is in a similar situation to what I described above. I'm sympathetic to the potential issues that you as a developer must face, and acknowledged with my own hard earned money that Qimage is in fact do a good program. I have looked no further since purchasing the program and don’t intend to.

But still, Qimage would do an even greater job if this seemingly innocuous file would have printed as easily in Qimage as it did in Photoshop.

If you’d like to see the file, let me know where I can send it, but as stated, it’s rather large.

Respectfully,

Justan

Hi Terry,

Thank you for your comments here and above.


Yes but what evidence is there that something is was non standard in the file?


> It's unlikely to be Qimage quirks, why not Adobe quirks?

This is a deflection.

> Qimage is not merely a "good" printing utility, it is World Class with its unique method processing for printing including the interpolation algorithms - and all its other features.
No apologies for being an enthusiast 
Terry


I work with PS as my production tool of choice. I want support programs that get along with it. I'm sure you understand that if a support tool doesn’t do the job, it becomes an obstacle.

I like Qimage. I've been using it for all my photo printing for a few years now and would have problems printing without it.

There may have been something unique about the file that motivated the problem. But in the end, I'm after a solution. If PS can work with single layer tif of psd files, I’d expect Qimage to as well. It would be odd for someone to find that an unreasonable expectation.

Thanks once again for the feedback.

>There's something else going on with that image [file] by the sound of it.

That’s what I suspected. I decided to work up the file again rather that continue to screw with the problem. The newly created file prints through Qimage just fine.

I can only surmise from the obvious that that Qimage doesn't like something in the original file, even though Photoshop has no problem with it.

In the past I have come across instances where Qimage gave the image read error and that was due to something in the file Qimage didn’t like. One time it was alpha channels, another time it was a view guide. However, again, in this case, the files are 1 layer tif or psd files which contain neither alpha channel nor view guide enabled.

Anywho, again, my thanks for your feedback. Even with it’s occasional Quirks, it is a good printing utility. It would be better if things such as this didn't cause delays but I'm glad to resolve the problem after only a half a day of work.

Thanks again for this feedback. The computer is an XP box (x32) with 4gb of ram, of which about 3.5 g is identified by the system. The startup programs are minimal as it goes. The computer uses about 320 MB after boot, according to task manager. I did a reboot and the Qimage numbers were much higher but still it would not read the image.

This image is very wide. Photoshop measures it at 17195 x 3693 pixels, (12.31” x 57.31”). Does Qimage have any issues due to the image width?

Don’t know off hand if I've done a longer tif before but this is not even close to the largest tif file I work with by way of byte count. Qimage has no problem opening or working with images of a larger overall file sizes. I have 5 of them in the same directory as this one, which are between about 800 MB and 3.5 GB and Qimage works fine with those. This one is a comparatively small ~ 780 MB.