That wasn't my experience. I've kept my copy of QImage Studio so that I can go back to some of my custom jobs done in Studio that don't appear in Ultimate's job log.

Tom

My reaction was the same as sectionq: sounds like they use QImage. If they do, then they certainly know best what settings to use in QImage to get the best results with the printer and paper combinations that they use.

Tom

Stan,

I don't see how you can expect a 12x18 image to be centered on 13x19 paper with this printer.

To center 18" in the 19" dimension requires 0.5" for each margin.

Looking at the printer's minimum margins in portrait mode, the bottom margin is over 0.5", so that leaves less than 0.5" for the top margin.



So 19" minus the 18" image and the 0.55" bottom margin leaves just 0.45" for the top margin.

A further test shows how it can be done. I chose borderless with minimal expansion and after a warning from the driver and a conversion to Super A3 from the custom 13x19, it shows plenty of room:



The driver warning is about the quality near the edges in borderless mode. I often use borderless with roll paper with good results but haven't tried borderless sheets with my 7900.

Tom

Stan,

I also have v2013, a 7900, and 64 bit Windows 7.

To replicate your problem, I defined a custom 13x19 sheet paper size in the Epson driver. QU reports a printable area of 18.333 x 12.766 for that custom size.

After creating an image with 12x18 proportions, I added it to the print queue and found that whether it works or not depends on the QU page margins setting.

With Center on Physical Page it fails. With Clear Margins it works.

See Edit Preferences / Print and Page Formatting / Page Margins

Some time back I had a problem of a print not being centered on the paper and someone here pointed me to the Center on Physical Page option. That fixed it. So now I'm just passing on what I learned here. Except you need the opposite: Clear Margins rather than center on page.

Tom

Photoshop and RIP software do a lot of things that QImage Ultimate doesn't do. If you don't need those extra features then you don't need Photoshop or RIP software. Only you know what your needs are.

I use QImage with my Epson 7900 and have never felt the need for RIP software. Qimage handles print layout, large printing, etc. for as much as I need. I don't use QImage for raw file processing, or general photo editing. For those I use Capture One and Picture Window Pro.

I'm not aware of any QImage support for CMYK images. If that is important to you then you will need something else in addition to, or in place of, QImage.

Tom

Mike,

The body of the email upgrade message refers to 217. The link is to 218 though.

Tom

OK, I found it in QImage Studio under Page Formatting --- Print Image / File Info.  It's actually more accessible in Studio than with QU. I've just never needed the option and hadn't run across it before.

I now have QImage Ultimate, but still use Studio a lot because I'm more used to it and because I often need to go back to the old Studio job log to reprint something. Is it possible to merge my Studio job log into QU?


Tom

Fred,

Is this feature available in QImage Pro? If so, how do you get to it to change it?

The original query was regarding QImage Pro.

I've never found the QImage Pro contact sheet with info option doing what I need and have instead made my own custom templates.

Edit: Oops, I use QImage Studio, not Pro. But I think it is the same for this feature.


Tom

Ray,

Actually, the printer does measure the roll paper width. It knows the paper width and remaining length of the roll. I once thought the printer had 13" roll paper when in fact it was 10" and the printer driver complained.

Tom

Here is what I should have done.

The page is now 24" wide which matches the 24" roll paper I was using.

The QImage preview looks the same. It again fit the image nicely to the page dimensions.

But the printer's preview shows the bottom of the paper as 24" wide rather than 16" wide.

So the moral of the story is that with roll paper, a page A by B isn't the same as B by A. QImage doesn't give any indication of the problem, and perhaps it might not be possible to know that there is a problem. QImage obviously knows the page width, and if it also knows the roll width it could give a warning. If it doesn't know the roll width then never mind.

Tom

Ok Fred, here's the long version:

What I did first was use a 16x24 page definition but with 24" roll paper. You can see in the driver's page definition the page width is 16" and the page height is 24". So it only used 16" of the 24" wide roll paper, but 24" of length.


I added the image as fit to page and that is what QImage did.

 But you can see from the preview that the bottom of the page (the end of the paper that comes out of the printer first) is only 16" wide, not 24".

Not what I wanted or expected.

What I should have done is in the next message.

Fred,

You misunderstood the problem.

I had told the printer to use a page size of 16" wide by 24" long. That would have been OK if 16" roll paper was loaded. But I had 24" roll paper and should have picked a page size in the driver setup of 24x16: 24" wide to use the 24" roll paper, and 16" of length.

The image was added to the queue with fit to page, so the 24 vs 23.766 wasn't the issue. I was using 24x16 in nominal terms in my description. But I expected it to be the smaller 23.766 x 15.766, and indeed that is what QImage gave me.

The Epson driver and Qimage did exactly what I asked for. But not what I intended.

The suggestion to always use the driver's preview would have caught it. My query was to see if now or in the future QImage would have some way to warn of this problem.

Tom

Thanks. Using the driver's print preview would indeed have warned me about the problem. That's something I rarely use. Maybe I should make it a habit.

Tom

So I wanted to make a 16x24 print onto 24" roll paper.

In the Epson 7900 print setup, I saw 16x24 in the size list and selected that. Then I added the image to the queue and it showed the print nicely filling up the page (23.766 x 15.766).

But when I printed it, in round numbers the print only used 16" of the 24" paper width and 24" of paper length. So it used 24" x 24" of paper rather than the 16" x 24" of paper I expected.

Looking into it, I see that the first number in Epson's size list is the width of roll paper, at least when using roll paper. I should have selected 24x16 instead of 16x24 because I'm using 24" roll paper rather than 16" roll paper.

With a little luck I will remember this lesson.

But in case I don't, is there a way that QImage could have made it more clear in the preview what was about to happen?

Tom

Thanks Ray. That did it.

I hadn't thought of looking for an option like that.

Tom