Fred and Terry

I did some checking in the other program and you were correct.  It was cropping automatically without notifying me of that fact.

You are correct. You are limited by the size of the paper and the amount of space the printer needs to print an image on that size of paper.

Thank you both for all your help.  I now understand what is going on and what I was doing wrong in setting up Qimage.

If I ever have any problems printing in Qimage again I also now know where to come to find great help in sorting it out.


Thanks again to you both.

Pete

Fred and Terry.

That is all true, and I am using files from a DSLR.  The only problem I am having is up to now I have had no problem with this file (or others like it) needing a crop to be printed at 8.5 X 11 with a margin even of 0.25.  I have never had to drop to such a small print as I do now.

I can live with it, just curious why it is behaving this way now.

Again, thanks for solving my basic problem.  It was very annoying and you have gotten me back in business!


Pete

Fred,

Your assumptions are correct.  This is what I want to do.

And your advice was good as well. I think the key was the fact that I had to get the settings correct before I loaded a picture.  I have just printed out a picture at 0.25 and one at 0.5 margins and both of them printed out correctly, the margins are correct and all sides are the same.

One oddity, when I print out images that, up to now, fitted well into this size without cropping them, the prints come out with the side margins greater than the top and bottom.  If I put auto-crop on they are cropped and come out totally symmetrical.

I can, of course, make the size of the print smaller, but I am still curious why this has cropped up (pun intened) now.

Oh, how do i make these setting default so I do not have to do the whole setup each time?

Thank you so much for getting me this far.  With luck I  will have a stable printer now.

Pete

Fred,

i do not have Reduce/Enlarge checked and i still have the problem.  What isinteresting is the fact that if I increase the margin to .50 the offsets get much larger, not just the small fixed offset set by the printer.

Incidentally, I just noticed that on the picture in the upper left corner is a small white box that says 2X2.  Is that relevant?

Pete

Terry,

That is the problem, becaise I have had it set so that all four margins were the same.  If you are going to mount the prints using mattes then this does not matter, but I like to display the prints without this elaborate process, just putting a backing of the print.  The difference in the margins printed out is very disturbing.

The fact that I was able to find settings that gave me all four margins the same size suggests I should be able to do it again if I can figure out what I am now doing wrong.

Thanks.

Pete

Fred,

O.K., I did that and now the picture does fit the settings, with the margins now 0.1181 for bottom and right side and 0.1167 for top and left side.  These are the fixed minimum amounts set by the printer.

The problem is that if I want, for example 0.25 margins I am not sure how I set the margins to get that. If I set an additional 0.25 to each of the margins, I still have the offset, that makes sense. But if I set the margins so that 0.25 is the total, I still have an offset similar to the one above. That does not make sense.

Does this make any sense to you?

Pete

Fred,

O.K.  here are the settings on my last attempt:

With Default Print Properties set at:
“fit to page”

and Margins set at 0.0 (by Clearing Margins)

Current Size: 7.39 X 9
Auto Crop: On
Placement Optimal/Spaced

At top of picture it is: 8.498 X10.998 (700 X700)
these values are from picture itself.

The paper is 8.5 X 11.0 inch and the picture that prints out is top and bottom a little over an inch, the left side is a little over ½ inch and the right side is 3/4 inch.

I am quite sure if I tried any other settings I would get somwhat different results (often the print is offset in odd ways.
The main problem is I see no stable relationship between my settings and what is printed out.

If you need anything else let me know and thanks for your help and the help of others.

Pete

Fred,

Sorry about that.  I mean margins.

Pete

I am using Windows 7 and Epson R2880 and printing TIFF files, post processed in Windows Pro 5.  I usually print either 8.5 by 11 or 13 by 19 inches with borders of .25, .5 or 1.0 inches.  When I attempt to set Qimage Ultime to print with .25 borders it comes out with asymmetrical borders, in portrait the left and right borders are about 1 iinch, the top is .25 and the bottom is a little less than 1 inch.  This is only one sample, but any attempt to set those borders comes out wrong with this type of problem.

I actually had it come out correctly once but cannot get it to do it again.  I assume I am making a mistake in my settings, but cannot find any instructions on how to handle this type of problem.

I am using Sigma cameras from the SD9 and have found Qimage is excellent for this camera, and want to continue doing so.

Thanks for your help!

Pete