Now we're into November just wondering if this is this still on track Mike - would love to get a Mac version. The only thing I keep a separate Windows PC for now is Qimage

Thanks again to you both, excellent help - Qimage has a lot of hidden features that are not glaringly obvious - well impressed!!  I guess I now need to find the time to read more and watch the videos so I can find out what else I am missing

That's quite bizarre Terry - I was in Rugby on Tuesday!!! It is just under an hour away and that's the first time I have ever been!  I didn't really get to see any of Rugby though - I went to Creare to talk about having a new website developed by them.  Saying that, I got to see more of Rugby than I should have as I got lost finding them so had a bit of a drive around and ended up at Larry's Chippy of all places lol 

PERA looks a lot different now. They gave it a really modern looking facelift not that long ago - they have fitted like a big 'skin' all around it. If you have a look on Google Images you'll see how different it looks!

Anyway, thanks again to both of you!

Phil

Thanks again to Terry and Fred - you are both a really good help!!  Yes, I am in the UK as well Terry (in Pork Pie land - Melton Mowbray  )

I know I'm being a bit of a pain now, but would either of you (or both of you lol) mind just clarifying one more thing for me relating to this.  If I have an image that is say 5000px x 3333px and I want to resize it to 46"x35", I go through the process discussed earlier and do everything in Qimage, saving the job for future use... all sounds great

Say if I want to physically print a 10"x10" sample of the resized 46"x35" to see what the full size print would look like quality wise, what would be the best (and accurate) way of doing this?

If I have a 10"x10" custom print size setup and then crop a portion of the image ready for printing I guess this means that as I am not enlarging it as much as for the 46"x35" full size version the interpolation is completely different and would not necessarily give me a true 'test' of a portion of the full size print?  Is that correct?

If so, please could you suggest what would be the correct process for physically printing a sample of the image - as you can imagine I don't really want to do full size checks at 46"x35" on what could end up being a lot of images. 

If you would be kind enough to spare a few more minutes to let me know your thoughts on this that would be great.

Thanks very much in advance!!!

Phil

Ah ha!!

Makes sense - so I could do with watching the 'Saving Jobs and Sessions' video   I have been watching some of the videos but had not watched that one.

I'm just off to fetch my daughter off the school bus but will sit down again tonight and learn some more!

As you say, there's no point in saving loads of large TIFF files all over the place. So, if I create some print jobs I guess then that it is important for the original images to remain in their original location - I guess if at some point in the future I move the images recalling the job will fail as the image has gone!

So I need to decide where to save everything now and keep them in that place. Would that be correct - to keep it as simple as possible?

Thanks again Fred & Terry, you have both been a great help

Phil

I hope you don't mind me asking a quick question (quicker than the last one!!) Something happens to me at 1am and it seems to take me 3000 words to describe something that I could do in 300 words in the daytime 

What is the best process in Qimage to save the images for future use? When I click 'Done' in the image edit view and say 'Create New Images' with a {Q} suffix, the aspect ratio is correct for my 46"x35" print but if I select 'original size' in the print properties dialogue box it is still very small when added to the page. It is fine if I select 46x35 from my list of custom sizes though.

What if I want to edit say 100 images and keep them saved as 46x35 so that when I open them up to use them in the future I can just keep 'Original Size' selected. Should I be able to do this with the 'save' options in Qimage?

I will use quite a lot of different sizes and rather than create lots of custom sizes and then select these again when it comes to printing it would be better if I could save them all as 46"x35" from Qimage (or whatever the other sizes are) and then keep the 'Original Size' setting selected.

Can I do this from Qimage? I hope so

If you could maybe point out how to do this that would be a really great help!!

Thanks again for your time, I really appreciate it!

Phil

wow, thank you both so much - I feel a bit stupid now - I have used Qimage for quite a long time and didn't realise it was so powerful and had all these features 

I guess I have just been using it for printing multiple images, for nesting them on the page etc.  What a waste - I have not utilised this at all - that's bad!!! lol

I have just been playing around having read your posts and can see now how easy it is to crop/edit images. I was thinking 'ah, but I want to use the same image over and over again - I don't want to set the crop each time'.

Then... I clicked done and get asked if I want to save it - perfect!!!

I have wasted so much time testing things out and trying to work out the best way to get my images the correct ratio in pixels for the print size that I want. What a plonker!!! 

I think I need to start watching some videos and learning more about what else I can use Qimage for (and not just nesting images like my old, really expensive RIP software!!!)

Thanks again for taking your time out to take screenshots etc to show me this. I really appreciate it

Phil

Hi all

I'm just wondering if you can help please.  I am printing some large images onto photo paper (around 45" x 30").

Some of the images are not the best in terms of quality (pixel dimensions).

I'm just wondering what the process should be and am wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I need to make the printed images all the same size and this means cropping some of them.

If I set up a custom size in Qimage and leave that to do the crop, I cannot determine where the image is cropped as far as I can see. I need to be quite precise with my crop position.

What I have done is created a spreadsheet to calculate the required height/width in pixels. For example if I have an image that is 2800px x 1800px and I want to crop it to make it the same proportions as a 46"x35" print size I would plan to keep the 1800px and reduce the longer side to 2366px.

I know in terms of PPI this is low for printing (51ppi at 46"x35").

What I'm wondering is re: the actual resizing.

I have OnOne Perfect Resize and am wondering if I should do the cropping in there (not making it bigger, just cropping it). However, I am wondering what the better process would be - should I:

a) resize it in Perfect Resize and change the PPI in there to something that multiplies into 600 for the HP resolution (75, 150, 300 etc)- just the small crop to get the proportions right, not taking it up to full print size - I would use 75ppi for this example which is actually 51ppi so it is not taking it up by much

b) just load it straight into Qimage at 2366px x 1800px and let it take care of the interpolation etc

I am using a HP printer (native ppi = 600). Qimage will recognise this automatically and do it's stuff.  if I use Perfect Resize it offers me the option to select whatever PPI I choose. My thinking was to choose 75ppi or 150ppi as this multiplies up into the native 600. Does it work like that? I have read about using 150ppi but not 75ppi - would it multiply it up just the same?

I hope that makes some sense

If anyone can share their thoughts that would be great. I plan to do some testing myself to see how the different settings affect the prints but just to know I am thinking in the right way (ish!!!) would be good to know.

Many thanks!

Phil

Thanks very much for taking the time to have a look at this and to reply with what you found Terry, I appreciate that a lot

I have found more info and it does look like it creates a 'normal' icc file so I will have more time for testing it tomorrow and will see if I can take that and use it for Qimage like you say

Thanks again!

Phil

Hi everyone

I know the HPZ6100 are pretty popular printers and I'm hoping there are some owners here who use one with Qimage Ultimate and may be able to offer some advice.

I have just bought a HP Z6100 with a built in Spectrophotometer. I have just gone through the menus, printed the test chart etc and then printed a test image direct from Photoshop. I am really impressed with the accuracy of the colours.

Now, I am not sure what I need to do with the settings in Qimage and the printer settings.

Is it possible to get an ICC profile file from the HPZ6100 profiling 'process' which can be used with Qimage or do I now need to select 'Let Printer Manage Colour'.

I'm not sure at this moment how I switch from one profile to another with the HPZ6100 (once I have created more), but I guess that's something else to figure out as well

If it is the latter option and I then really use Qimage for nesting images on the paper and take advantage of some of its other features will this wtill work the same as it does with my Epson's (9880 and 7800).

I really like the look of this printer so far, but really do hate learning the different settings/features etc lol

Many thanks in advance for any help/advice

Phil