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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / In landscape mode, right border always prints larger than left border.
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on: November 14, 2015, 04:00:38 PM
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This is the same problem I had with my Epson 1400. I now own a Canon Pro 100 and am using Qimage Ultimate v2016.128.
With Qimage default settings, my image prints with uneven borders. There is nothing in my printer properties that would tell it to do this, as far as I can tell. Borderless is not selected.
In my latest try, I am working with an image that is 18.620 x 12.685 inches. That is the maximum printable area for a 13 x 19 image. In Photoshop, I have added an inset thin line that is exactly 1" from each edge of the paper on all four sides. When I print this, the distance between the edge of the paper and this inset line is the following:
Left: 1"
Top: 1"
Bottom: 1"
Right: 1-1/8"
If I go into Edit->Preferences->Print and Page Formatting->Page Margins, the default margins are:
Top .1333
Bottom: .1350
Left: .1167
Right: .2000
With this default, it prints incorrectly.
If I balance left and right equally, still prints incorrectly and appears incorrect in Qimage, as the screen shot below indicates. I have tried center placement and optimal placement with the same results.
Thanks...Alan
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Margin Shifting
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on: October 03, 2014, 02:16:55 PM
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Fred. I like the way you say I disparage you then you turn around and label me as clueless. Good job! You say you knew all along it was overexpansion. Really? Can you note which post you stated that in prior to Terry's post? Allen Alan Sorry Allen that we couldn't help you.
Unfortunately, we were reading all sort of mixed signals like:
Can my printer really cover the entire page?
I have a corner where no ink sprayed.
I am in Center Placement! Really?
I drag on to the template and it's still not right!
We all saw what you were doing; Terry, Brian and myself.
We all knew it was the MAX expansion setting!
Since I had replied first, Terry and Brian hung back.
Since you had not shown a grasp of your printer nor Qimage, I decided to have you print a borderless print, then add a border to your image and actually see, as we decrease the expansion setting how and why your border was not visible.
People mess up driver settings all the time.
They turn on Scaling, they reset the output page size, they use Saved Driver setups.
I had to be sure you had the proper sizes of page and print set in Qimage. I asked for verification before I can be positive that it was the Expansion.
Since you choose to disparage the person/people that tried to help you, feel free to get help from any source you like.
Again, (Speaking only for myself) my apology!
Fred
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Margin Shifting
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on: October 02, 2014, 10:13:49 PM
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After I signed off this forum, I went to DPR and asked my question on the Printers and Printing Forum. The first reply was simple and accurate: Your image is being enlarged and that is why your sample with the 1/8" border is not printing correctly. With Canon printers, and some newer Epson printers, this overspray can be adjusted, as I found out later. Correct me if I am wrong, but I did not see that information in any of Fred's comments prior to me getting frustrated. So yes, I did find out more at another forum. I found out exactly what the "problem" was. Alan, I'll get help from other forums. I doubt it, Fred is a real expert in the use of QU and the program developer keeps an eye on things and posts regularly. We often have to wade through problems where there is insufficient detail, questions about set-up are not answered, wrong terminology used and misconceptions on how QU works.  Going back to your original post: I can see a little extra white space on the right and bottom This is on the page preview on the main screen and it does not matter - it is merely a "preview". Fred has told you that the accurate position of an image on a page is shown in the Page Editor Size/Location tab. He's also told you you were wasting time and using Template Centred inappropriately, I hope you've got that now. In your last post you said: Below is the image I have been attempting to print as a test. 90% of the black border does not appear on the final print. You need to understand how borderless printing works, the driver expands the image and coverage of the nozzles to OVERLAP the page size so no white edges are seen at all. You can see in your driver screen shot a slider showing the level of expansion set to Max - you are bound to loose some of the image at this setting. QU has a setting to eliminate the expansion completely: Edit-Preferences-Print and Page Formatting-Borderless Overspray/Expansion. See screen shot below. A health warning comes with this setting that Fred has already mentioned too: unless your printer feed and guides are perfect, you are likely to set white slivers at some of print edges. One final point to check since the subject of this thread is "Margin Shifting". Check that additional page margins have not been set in QU in the Edit-Preferences-Print and Page Formatting again. See screen shot below which shows almost zero margins when borderless is set in the driver. I don't know why the driver is showing this tiny "fixed" amount on 2 sides, maybe it's a feature of my R2000. Terry |
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Margin Shifting
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on: October 01, 2014, 10:33:45 PM
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The Qimage "simple way" printed exactly the same. I am using Epson Premium Presentation Matte paper pre-cut. It's the only paper I have. I will not waste any more of your time. I'll get help from other forums.
Below is the image I have been attempting to print as a test. 90% of the black border does not appear on the final print.
Thanks for your time.
Alan
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Margin Shifting
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on: October 01, 2014, 09:07:49 PM
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Let me just ask this question and get it out of the way. Can I actually print an 8-1/2 x 11 image on 8-1/2 x 11 paper? If that is my problem and I cannot do that then I will quit wasting everyone's time with this thread.
And to answer your previous question, yes, my print did not print as stated in my post. It was off by at least 1/8" top and bottom at minimum.
When I drag an image to the box, does that "preview" have any bearing on what the print will actually look like?
Alan
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Re: Margin Shifting
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on: October 01, 2014, 06:31:33 PM
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Fred. Thank you very much for your prompt response.
I created a test image with a black border of 1/8" all around. The print-to-file export looked fine.
When I drag this image to the template (template-centered print placement), both with and without the Auto Crop On, and print the page and view in portrait mode, I have no black border showing at the top and bottom and probably 1/32" on the left -- slightly more at the top than bottom. Only a small portion of the lower right contains a sliver of ink -- about 1-1/2 up the page.
My test image is 8-1/2 x 11. In page editor view, it showed the image as 8.5 x 11 but I did not see the print location fields you show in your image.
Below is a screen shot of the template.
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Mike's Software / Qimage Ultimate / Margin Shifting
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on: October 01, 2014, 03:16:29 PM
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I have the latest build of Qimage Ultimate. Using an Epson 1400 printer with borderless checked.
This is really a continuation of a thread I posted last year.
I have an image that is 8-1/2 x 11 inches.
If I drag that image onto a template, regardless of how I do that (fit to page or original size), the image always shifts to the left and shifts to the top.
I always select centered.
That leaves me with a right and bottom border that is larger than what I started with, and a left and top border that is smaller.
I have searched this via Google, as well as this board, and have not found a solution.
This happens in both a print and in a print-to-file.
Is it my printer driver that is causing this?
When looking at the image that is dragged to the template, I can see a little extra white space on the right and bottom.
Not sure if that matters.
Alan
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