Hi Jeff,

Now you've got it working, this may be useful - http://www.harveyheadcleaner.com/

I don't use it; I can't say it's any use, or not.

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi Tom,

The printer doesn't know or care what the physical size of paper is used. You have to enter the size (or width if roll paper) - it will check to see if the size and type/weight and feed method are compatible  - it does not itself measure the width, you have to tell it that. That size will be communicated to qimage, since qimage is another step away from the paper. So if the printer can't determine the actual size of paper, I can't see how qi can. The print preview - you need to look carefully, since you have said 16 inch wide, the preview fills that with your image, the same as for the 24 inch width, apart from the top of page marking (so your next question would be why is the image going to be 24 inches high when I asked for 16). If there was a warning generated every time qi needed to rotate an image to get it to fit on a page, it would soon be ignored. I think in most area measurements we use 'width by height'.

I bet you don't make the same mistake again... at least not for the next few days

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi Fred,

The link refers to epilepsy, in the main, that can be triggered by flashiing lights, etc. I was pointing out, that some folk are effected _more_ than others. Just because you can't see a problem, flashing lights have no effect on you, does not mean it does not effect others, plus, it's a question of freedom of choice for the viewer. For a static avatar, you can more easily ignore it, but for most folk, their peripheral vision is most sensitive to movement, so a flashing light at the edge of a screen, even if said light is small, will be an irritation to them. Personally, it doesn't bother me, (at least not physically), but that does not mean it may not bother others, and before your penultimate post, the problem was solved for the op - it was just that you appeared to assume that because Terry's avatar caused no disturbance to you, then it should not disturb others. Your initial response to Tom's request, was basically taking the piss, whereas if you knew that the avatars could be turned off, you could have replied accordingly.

The reason I give links is because generally it saves time in summarising the content, gives the reader more background information, avoids plagiarism, etc., and a chance for all of us to learn of other things. 

I do not normally use avatars, I generally view them as gimmicky/puerile, but sometimes I'll use an image of my dog, or other animal, if it aids identity, and I've got something I think is worth saying.

Anyway - in the words of this guy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderick_Crawford  who starred in - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Patrol_%28TV_series%29 - your posting is  "ten-four" 

Best wishes,

Fred

Hi Fred,

Flashing images can effect different folk in different ways - from not even noticing, through annoyance to physical/mental effects -see http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidelines-harm-flashing-images/ and other references. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy and links give more background information, including legislation covering more serious cases on the web and elsewhere.

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi Tom,

Turn off all avatars is possible - go to your profile settings (profile tab near top of page), then under 'Modify profile' select 'Look and Layout Preferences', and select 'don't show users' avatars'.

Or easier, slide the window over to the left of the screen, so the avatar and details strip is off the screen.

Seems to be no way to pick on individual avatars.

Best wishes,

Ray

obvious question, but does it print white otherwise. e.g. does a black and white chess board image give a black and white print - create it in ms paint or photoshop. I can't see where you have specifically said that whites other than borders are OK. Ignore the driver preview colours, they will be wrong - ink on paper required.

Best wishes,

Ray

edit-  I don't mean black and white in grayscale, but in normal colour space of srgb, whatever

Hi Jim.

going from linear to object oriented, I was lucky to be 'mentored' by a guy from IBM. The solution is easy, as he explained to me -'You unplug your brain, and then plug it in again, but sideways'. It's one of those things that takes a year of frustration, and then it suddenly clicks, and you can't then even think about doing it in the old way.

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi David,

It's a command line thing...

Simplest way would be to go to a dos command prompt (within windows 7 just type cmd from the start menu/search and then right click and choose RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR (if you aren't already).

then type in PING /? at the prompt to give you the options. You will need the url of the printer, or its network name.

You should get something llike this -
www.yertiz.com/pic0608/Clipboard.jpg

Just something else for you to get into   .

Why not try it on a longer usb cable, or get an extender?

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi Jim,

Well, from the user's point of view, I would guess since QI knows the size he's aiming at (36 in examples above), then all he needs to enter is the size he actually gets (35.5), so no need for the user to calculate anything. It's up to the programmer to choose whatever method he likes in getting to the result he needs, bearing in mind documentation and maintenance issues, of course.

I bought Borland Pascal before Philippe Kahn moved to USA. It was for a cpm machine, iirc. It consisted of a couple of floppies (5 1/4 iirc, or maybe 8 inches) and a dozen or so duplicated sheets for the manual - not even printed, stencil duplicated. You can now version 1 and later versions for free. I don't remember actually using it, but many did. Interesting article on the Wiki, you can see how Borland was 'different', even from the origin of the original code. Having started out different, it is difficult to later conform to more widespread standards, without upsetting and maybe losing your existing customer base.

Best wishes,

Ray

(Next week, a dissertation on alternative uses for punched cards  )

Precisely

Hi David,

try 1) turning off computer and printer. Then power up printer, wait a while, then power up computer. Wait a minute or so, and try printing something from notepad, say. (no need to fuss around with qi, afaik its purely a network coms problem you have.)

If you don't get the status monitor, and everything is set up for you to have it showing in the driver then try

2) turning off computer and printer. Then power up computer wait a while, then power up printer. Wait a minute or so, and try printing something from notepad, say.

3) try pinging the printer address. If it is a network device, then I think it should have, in effect, it's own 'web page' which will allow you to adjust various options concerned with the network connection. You may need to mess around with ip addresses, and the like.

Have fun. You're in a good place, since you will come up with a solution, and you can tell us how you did it.

fwiw in a former life, I used to 'fix stuff' on various sites. It was quite surprising how often that merely placing a 2lb claw hammer on the table in front of the errant equipment, would get it all working again.   

Best wishes,

Ray

Jim,

Mike used to, maybe still does, program in Pascal, iirc. That is one huge mathematical trick. I know many folk who used that language, it tended to distort their view of reality 

By saying that, it tended to make them think of short cuts, different ways of doing things, which were not necessarily obvious to us lesser mortals stuck with Fortran, Cobol, and the like.

fwiw, Mike is saying the same as you, except he's not expressing it with the maths required to shift 1.02 to 2% - but we know that anyway. I wonder if the sharpening (which depends on print size) is adjusted accordingly 

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi David,

If you go to print (not necessarily in qi), and open the printer driver properties tab, do you get the status monitor - e.g. ink levels etc. showing there? If not, it may be you've installed a windows generic print driver, and not one from Epson. I've not got your printer, but I did find it not too straightforward to get the right driver loaded for my printer.

Best wishes,

Ray

Hi Jim,

It's a question of semantics, I guess. Confusion caused between stretching and shrinkage. Usually, in my world, a per unit change (simply multiply by 100 if the per unit value is small to get percentage) is the amount you have to move from where you are to where you want to be expressed as a ratio of where you are. So, if I want to walk ten miles, and I've gone eight, then I have to walk (10-8)/8 of the distance that I've walked so far e.g. 1/4 or 25% more. If I want to look back at it, from the destination, then the last effort was (10-8)/10 or 1/5th or 20% of the total.

So, Mike has said you want to make (that is the destination) a 36 long print, but you get 35.5, so shrinkage is 100x(36-35.5))/36 = 1.3888%, or 1.4% in real money. (you have to stretch what you have by 1.4% to get to the desired length). If you happen to get a print, say 36.5 long, then shrinkage would be 100x(36-36.5)/36 = -1.4%, (call it 1.4% stretch?) and you have to shrink your result by 1.4% to get to where you want to be.

Aternatively, you could say, in the first case (shrinkage) that from where you are, you need to stretch what you have by 100x(36-35.5)/35.5 = 1.4084 (or 1.4%) to get to the desired length, so if the shrinkage is small compared with the length, whether actual or desired, it doesn't really matter which method you use to calculate it, in a practical situation.

Have I confused you yet? If so, do what I do - make the frame to suit the size of the canvas.  

I was sort of amused by your discussion with yourself, and wondered how long you could keep doing so  

Best wishes,

Ray

edited to correct typo in calculation

try again, Jim