Thanks for the reply Terry,

I have been in touch with another printer who will do a proof for me. I'm going to use the same pdf and see how it goes.

Seán

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the reply. Of course you are right. I printed to CutePDF driver via qimage.
I think I will have to find an alternative printer. Do you know if it's possible for me to have ebmedded a colour profile into the pdf file?

I went into the printers this morning with the same document in .psd .tiff .jpg but was assured they could change their settings and match my sample. I am not at all convinced. They are using a 4 colour printing press. It must be a RGB to CYMK conversion thing.

Seán

Hi,

I have done up a memorial card for my father who passed away last Christmas.

As I have no way of printing double sided and laminating and folding I have given the job over to a professional printer.
I have given a pdf file generated by Qimage from a photoshop .psd file to the printer as requested. I looks like the printer is
importing this into Adobe InDesign to print.

On the Qimage job properties I have a monitor ICC set and printer ICC set to 'let the printer/driver manage colour'
I have printed this on printers at work and printed a sample copy on a home epson using premium glossy paper for the printer to match. The result has always been similar in terms of colour.

I was shown a 'proof' this morning and was gutted. The whole thing was dull. The bright blue sky printed more like purple.
The printer has said he can "tweek" the colours but I now have no confidence in them whatsoever.

I'm sure the problem is something to do with colour profiles but I'm not sure if I am embedding some profile in the pdf file
or it's something the printer needs to do. I don't really understand what I need to or can do.
Can anyone give me some advice or some steps to try. As I'm sure you can appreciate it is really impoprtant for me and my family to have the colour right.

Thanks in advance
Seán Buckley

Thanks for your replies Terry.
My 'traditional' way of joining in to overlap on a light box 'tack' the back with masking tape and cut down the middle of the overlap. There's no step. No bit missing. No 'white' bits.
Of course it's possible to do it manually as I have been doing ..but it would be a nice option when poster printing.
Come on Mike make my day!! ..please

Seán

I don't mean just a white border.

Qimage doesn't print an overlap in the image. It effectively slices the image.
I find it difficult (and expensive) to print and join accurately. There's always a sliver missing ..or if I join after leaving a white border I might get a white sliver at the join.

It would just be so much easier to join with a proper overlap in the image itself.

Seán

I would like an option to specify an overlap when printing poster prints.

Anyone else like to have this feature added?