Thanks Ray,

I wasn't using the PCL, but I'll try installing that to see what it does.  I was able to devise a workaround, using a print to file followed by using the XP printer driver off of an older computer.  Qimage is an incredible piece of software -- I'm pretty sure I'll end up buying it.  (And, it has an active user community - thanks for your help)

After a weekend of fiddling with settings, I'm beginning to reach the conclusion it's more an issue of a buggy printer driver than anything else.  Even the edge of document colors print fine when bypassing the printer color correction.

Thanks.  That did cross my mind, tried it, but the printer printed it as Qimage sent, not as margins specified (might be one of those printer issues -- it's done that to other apps too)  I was able to get Qimage to split the image into pieces and spit it back out as a jpeg by using print to file.  Works for one poster, but not for a string of orders.  Also, once divided into 8x10 pieces, Qimage refuses to recognize the size as an 8x10 and keeps changing the size in the software, about 1/4 of the original.  I could do an auto-formatting run through photoshop, but it would take FOREVER and my printer wouldn't like the huge drain on internal memory.

Part of me says that I just haven't found the right combination, but it sure seems like I've tried everything I could concoct.

Thanks for the quick reply.  What you're saying makes sense.  Essentially that's what I did. I separated the file into 4 posters, specified the margins (including off-center left/right) then printed.  The print ended up all the way to the edges on two pages, despite my saying it should have only been 8x10 on 8-1/2x11 paper.

I'm using v2010.107 on a Xerox Phaser 6180.  Wondering if it's a bug, although I usually tend toward user error as a cause.  Spent 2 days trying to figure it out.

I'd like to be able to print on 8.5x11 paper, an 8x10 with .2 l margin, .3 r margin and .5 on both top and bottom.  It would be an original image of 8x10 but printed as a poster as 16x20.  I can't get it to print anything but a huge image on the first two pages, and the remainder on the next two.

Help?  (The main reason for needing it equally sized and with those margins is that the printer doesn't do a very good job printing near the edges, and the poster ends up with different colors that don't blend when put together)