Sorry Mike.

Tiffs and Pngs are not appropriate at all for logos. Quite often we have to have a raster version of a logo traced into a vector format in order to scale it for quality printing at a larger size.

We have reproduced client's logos on everything from pens to large banners with the same PDF vector file. Anywhere from less than an inch to many feet from the same file. Raster formats like Tiffs or Pngs do not work at all for this kind of work.

The reason I looked at this today is we're getting ready to print a batch of dye sublimated gift cards that we received, correctly, as pdfs. Qimage is so great to batch print these but I have to convert 50 ready-to-print pdfs to a raster file first.

I know you created Qimage for printing photos but it works great for graphics too.

Why does Qimage have to be just a photo printing app? I understand that it was designed with just photos in mind but it is so useful for printing everything. The only thing holding it back is the inability to handle PDFs directly.


We are a photo lab that also does commercial printing. We do all of our wide format printing through Qimage. All of our commercial work comes in as PDFs. These get mixed in with our photo printing workflow. The only difference is that we have to convert them before Qimage will handle them.

We also do a fair amount of Dye Sublimation gift items. This can be anything from phone photos of grandkids on Christmas ornaments to business logo PDFs on coffee mugs. The automatic ganging up and automatic print length in Qimage are AMAZING for this work. The fact that Qimage will gang up assorted sized things that are different resolutions is a BIG time saver.

I know we should probably be using a real RIP instead of Qimage in our shop but we really like Qimage and if it handled PDFs it would be nearly perfect.

I don't know much about programming but, would it be a lot of work to add PDF support?

Just bumping this again.

The longer we use Qimage the more we like it. It is so productive in so many ways.

Almost daily we have to print pdfs and have to convert them first.

For anyone who does much commercial printing, this would be an extremely valuable function to have.

We would be happy to do a paid upgrade for the ability to print PDFs.

Are we the only ones?

Thanks for the quick reply Mike.

It was the "Fit to PAPER" wording that was confusing me.  

We do commercial printing on a digital press as well as other types of printers and generally, the printing software does not resize the image. In fact, in the commercial printing world, we always add extra to the border that will be trimmed off. In our world, this is called "bleed".

"Fit" sounds like it will resize the image. We just have to remember what that setting does.

I can't seem to understand how Qimage crops.

We do all our editing outside of Qimage. The only print size we use is "Orignal Size"

I'm trying to print an artwork that has a large white border. The image is 16x20 and the paper size is 16x20. This is not going to be borderless. I know that the printer can't print the entire image when the page size is 16x20. All I want Qimage to do is print the image the way it is sized and let the extra bleed off. Is that what the little crop tool icon on the image means?

Sometimes we get a dialog box that says:

Selected print size is larger than one page.
Do you want prints to span multiple pages?

Answering "Yes" will cause image to be printed across
multiple pages. answering "No" will reduce
print size to fit on a single page

I don't want to do either of these. All I want to do is print the image the way I have it sized and allow the sides of the image that are too large to bleed off the edges.

Isn't there a simple way to set Qimage to not resize the images?

I googled quite a bit before posting here and I can't find a straightforward explanation of how cropping works.

Is there any chance that printing PDFs will be supported in the future?

We are a photo lab but do a fair amount of commercial work as well. That work is almost 100% PDF.

We recently started using Qimage for our new Epson 9570 and are really excited about the possibilities.
I have to admit, I just assumed Qimage would print pdfs directly.
We are a photo lab/graphics shop and print everything from fine art to posters.
If one of our clients sends us a design with graphics it's almost always a pdf. (Trying to do this now as I type)
It doesn't seem that rendering them first in Photoshop should be necessary.
I'm not a programmer but would this be a difficult feature to add?
This would be a very useful feature to have.
Thanks!

A big second to this.
We stopped using Qimage 4 years ago due to there being no written manual.
PDFs are searchable when you just need a quick answer to a question.
That and I am definitely a person who learns better by reading than by watching videos.
I was at an event and needed to look up how to do a simple thing in Qimage. There was no way I could watch a video with a bunch of guests standing around.
We just got a new P9570 and are trying to work out what the best workflow will be.
Would are going to give Qimage another try.

I know it would be a lot of work but PLEASE update the manual.

Thanks for the reply.

I guess Windows Defender is considered anti-virus.

I turned it off. Did a reinstall and using "run as administrator" to do it.

I also set the shortcut to start Qimage to "run as adminstrator"

We'll see what happens.

Chuck

Just tried to exit Qimage and I am getting "List index out of bounds (3)", "I/O error 123", and  "C:\ProgramData\ddisoftware\Qimage\rLog\{Q} Last Exit.jss could not be saved. Write access denied."

I could not quit the program and had to kill it using task manager.

I just purchased and installed qu18-110 yesterday and used it a few times.
After I started up this morning everything is running really slow and I get "C:\ProgramData\ddisoftware\Qimage\redo.ses could not be saved. Write access denied."

This happens when I try to delete a photo that is erroneously showing up on the print layout. I am using Window 10 with all the latest update. No anti-virus except Windows Defender.

It worked OK yesterday. Any idea what might have happened?