That's my problem Fred. I can easily create templates to a specific size and adding borders to these works great too... BUT...they only work if crop mode is switched on. As soon as you deselect crop, you lose your original layout! Qimage tries to save paper and reduces the larger borders. Maybe this is one for the wish list, but if templates had an option to either lock the original size or reduce to save paper, this would be a really useful feature. Mike's workaround is great for one off prints but roll paper printing with multiple prints of different sizes becomes a pain to do under these circumstances. Would this be difficult thing to achieve in a future release?

No Fred,

I am not looking for an identical set. I want to print up to 30 different sizes on the same page (Roll printing). I just need templates (Or similar) that maintain a specific size / aspect ratio and also apply a one inch border without cropping. Will your method allow for multiple saved layouts on the same page (Roll)?

Regards
John

Mike,

It's a great solution and one that I am happy to use for many of my single print orders. On the other hand, most day's I get orders for all different print sizes. So in one print run I might have an A3,  A4, 10 x 8 +12 x 16 (for example). In each case these sizes need to be the finished paper size with a one inch minimum white border and no cropping. I have to try Fred's suggestion (need to read it carefully first), but do you think that would work for me?

Thanks
John

Hi Mike,

I tested your suggested workflow and it appears to work great for single print setups. In fact, this will be very useful for my single print orders. Thanks for that! Unfortunately adding a second or subsequent print (different size) to the same page after using this workflow, changes the size I have setup for the first print. Maybe I have missed something?

Regards
John

Fred

Did you achieve this using a template? Or was this set up manually?

Regards
John

Mike thank you for the suggestion.

I will certainly give this a go tomorrow when I am back in the office. Unfortunately cutting paper to size first is not an option for me because I print so many different print sizes and aspect ratio's on every print run. Was hoping to build a separate template for each of my standard print sizes (about 30) and then drop the template on to the roll layout for each size required to fill an order. As I mentioned earlier the templates I built worked perfectly as long as auto cropping was set to on, but since I reproduce original artwork (paintings) these obviously cannot be cropped. If the template page size remained locked and the border was pre set then this would force the template to act like a virtual page. Hopefully your suggestion will achieve this. Will post back again after trying this out.

Regards
John

Hi Mike,

Yes I am working with large format printers so using roll media. In this example, I would require a 10 x 10 printed with crop lines around a 12 x 16 page. If the template I created could be locked to my chosen size with borders and treated by Qimage as if it was a regular page, then this could (in theory) be achieved. At the moment is seems that Qimage tries to save paper by creating a 10 x 10 image on a 12 by 12 page, thus preventing me using Templates and increasing my production time x 2.

Regards
John

Tried to figure this out myself but no luck so hoping this can be done. 

I sell prints based on the finished paper size with a minimum one inch white border. No cropping of artwork so borders often end up uneven which is fine.

My current workflow is to set up a page, centre the image and apply the border with no cropping and then print to file. I would then print this finished file to create my final print with borders. I would like to reduce the time it takes to do all of this as I have lots of images to work with.So, I recently discovered Templates which looks very promising BUT.....when I create a page template for example a 12 x 16 inch page with one inch white border this works fine, IF I add the image with cropping. BUT...for example, if I add a square format image to this page template, without cropping, Qimage automatically reduces the size of my page (to a square format). I don't want this. I really need to maintain the exact page size at all times and if cropping is unset I need the image to scale down and fit the available print space I have allowed within the template. Is there a way to lock the template page size, so that I can achieve this without Qimage altering my template size? If this is not possible to do, could this feature be added? It would literally half my production time during print sessions. Or is this already possible?

Just to clarify, in case my explanation is unclear. I create a 12 x 16 page template with one inch border. I drop a 10 x 10 image on the template and I want a 12 x 16 finished page with a 10 x 10 image in the middle (one inch border on sides and 3 inches top and bottom.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks
John

Hi Mike

I am unable to use my dropbox account at the moment but will email those files to you in the morning for review. (since they are very small files).

Thanks again
John

Thanks Mike

I will do this when I am back at the workstation tomorrow. Appreciate your support. In relation to Greyscale profiles is there anything in particular to watch for? Can you recommend a working space for dealing with Grayscale images? Can QI correctly handle profile transformations when a grayscale tagged image is sent to the printer using an RGB print profile? Or do you recommend using RGB tagged images for this purpose?


Kind regards
John

Hello folks,

I am a long time user of Qimage Ultimate. I use it daily for production in my print studio business and have been using custom paper profiles to get accurate colour output. I recently built some black and white linearizing profiles using QTR Create ICC script with i1 Profile Maker. I want to use these with Canon's Black and white print mode to linearize the output. When I use these profiles in Qimage the prints are way too dark. After spending many hours re-making profiles and re-testing (without success), I decided to test the same profiles and the exact same driver settings to make prints from both Lightroom and Capture One. Both of these applications produced a print as expected with good linear response. Since Qimage Ultimate is infinitely better than these other applications for production printing I am hoping to figure out why my profile does not work in QU. Hopefully someone can help me figure this out.

Best regards
John

Update installed and I can confirm that the problem has been fixed. Thank you for the support and well done to the Qimage team on getting this this fix so quickly. Have a great day!

Thanks Fred. Please post here if you get an update.

When I use the print to file feature on Qimage Ultimate (version 2019.100) it keeps creating white images with no content. Anyone else experience this? need help

Thanks