Thanks Ray,  the print cue is clear.  CS5 does not give the option of saving as a JPEG at the size it is.  I will try and reduce the DPI further to see if that helps.  What's wierd is that the smaller print encountered the same problem.

Also whenever I go to print with the 4880, the printer box for the 610 also opens.  I delete the items in the cue and close the box.  The 4880 box also opens and appears to be loading just incredibly slowly.

Just as some more info.  I tried to print a normal JPEG file size 5.2 MB.  Should be no problem.  Everything goes fine up to the point that the printer dialogue box opens.  Ten minutes later its not even half loaded.  No other programs running but QI and the associated printer stuff.

I missed one of the questions earlier.  I am running on a MAC using Parallels.  I emailed Mike and he told me that according to what QI tells me I have for memory it should be working just fine.

I have been looking into getting another 4 GB of RAM just to make things go a little faster when running CS5 anyway.  As I undersdtand it a MAC with Parallels essentially splits the RAM between the two operating systems so this would effectively double my RAM and should help the process.

Yeah I read about the driver too but using Preview on my MAC I have printed up to 126" with no issue so far

The file is stitched together from a series of photos.  Often as many as 20 images combined

So i got everything appearing to work except that after three hours of waiting the image had only uploaded about 1/3 to the driver.  I mean where the printer screen comes up and it shows the file going to the printer, the bar was only about 1/3 of the way after the three hours.  The file size saved as a PC TIFF and redueced to 300ppi is 991 MB.

okay so I have my first print running.  I just used what I ahd from CS5 and saved it as a PC TIFF.  Wonder why they make em different.  Anyway the print should start soon........

It's been 20 minutes since I hit print.  The driver is just taking forever to load.

I think I see what you're saying I will give it a shot.  I assume there is a ruler tool or something to check the print size of an object on my image?  Then I can crop my 17" x 216" out of the result using QI instead of CS5.

Thanks for the help I will let you know how it turns out
  Dave

Okay sounds like I need to do a bit of relearning.  What I am doing is making photo backdrops for model railroads.  Due to the importance of scale I have to work with the image a lot to get the buildings and other things to appear the right size.  I then make a 17" crop out of the result for printing.

It sounds like what I could do is take the original image in photoshop, size it for what I need, write that size down, then take the small original, put it into QI and tell the program the ultimate dimension needed.  Have I got that right?

Thanks folks

well thats good to hear. At least I can take a smaller version of the originale put it through the program and uszize it there without losing quality.  The image size is 2.75GB whihc leads me to believe I am doing something wrong in the first place cuz that seems excessive.

Actual pixels its 10800 x 8500

I show a 1789 MB as the Now available.

yeah I got an image read error.  Mike replied to an email suggesting the file sizes are too big maybe.  He asked for some info so I'll know more when he gets back to me.

Now, obviously people do print images this large for certain applications.  So if my files are too large as is then what would be the best way to go about doing this?  How small can I make the file before I start noticing a degraded resolution?  I currently save the files at 500 dpi.  I am guessing they could be a bit smaller without losing image quality and I think this would reduce overall size right?

Hi guys I'm using the free download for a test drive and I have asked this elsewhere so please forgive the repetition but I need to be able to do this for my business.

Okay.

I need to print 17" tall x at least 216" long (18 ft.)

I use a Nikon D90 process with CS5 on a MAC

I save these images as TIFFS pr PSD if necessary

I cannot see the images in QImage

I am printing on an Epson 4880

How do I make this work?

Thanks