I would really like to encourage Qimage to seriously consider porting Qimage to Linux. A lot of us professional users (and recently - non-professionals, too!) are trying our best to get away from Windows, but we need tools! We have VueScan for scanning, OnlyOffice or LibreOffice, it would sure be great to have Qimage on Linux as well. I'd love to see Qimage get out ahead of the curve and really be ready as new users arrive from Windows.

I'm sure I'm not the first to make this suggestion, so thanks for entertaining my comments.

emptywig

You're doing somehing different than what I proposed.  Let me do it in steps to try to be more clear:

• Under the live view, click the placement button and choose "Template/centered"
• Add your image(s) at your 594 x 420 size with crop OFF

Now when you are in Template/centered placement mode which is a special placement mode, your crop marks will be on the red outline(s) and not the print itself.

P.S.  This has nothing to do with layouts or the [Template] thumbnail.  Here you are using the Template/centered placement method.

Regards,
Mike

Hi Mike

That isn't working.

I've created a template 594x420mm.

Turned off cropping and set placement to centre.

I drag an image sized 528 x 420 over the template from the thumbnails.
The image replaces the template, and the crop marks are on the image (528 x 420).

You should be able to do that with "Template/centered" placement.  Just change your placement method to "Template/centered" and add your image(s) at your 594 x 420 size with crop OFF.  The print will be 529 x 420 as you noted but the red template size remains the overall size you chose (594 x 420) and when you turn crop marks on, it marks the corners of the red template, not the print.

Regards,
Mike

We often print images that need to be a certain size, ie A2
But the actual image may not be that size or aspect ratio.

As an example, I am trying to print an image A2 (594 x 420mm), but the actual picture is only 529 x 420 mm

The image is either 594x420 (A2) but cropped so I lose the edges, or 529x420, which does show the whole image.

My issue is crop marks. We print on a wide-format printer using rolls, so need to trim the images to size after printing.
What I ideally want is to be able to specify an A2 print size to get the crop marks, but for the image to be scaled so it all fits within the bounding size.

Currently we have to resize the image and add the required white space manually, and then print.
Be great if QI did the work for me!

Is this something that can be done in QI? Fitting an image within a 'bounding box' to get the crop marks where required for the final size.

Thanks

No, Qimage uses the Epson driver and can't bypass anything in the driver as the driver supplies the requirements and all software has to obey those.  Those (density) settings may not apply or be available if you have color management turned off: if you're using a printer profile in Qimage.

For estimating ink, there may be some third party ink utilities that can estimate ink usage but I believe they estimate how much ink has already been used and they don't "predict".  You'd have to Google that because Qimage doesn't do any ink predicting as it has no access to ink delivery amounts: the driver doesn't supply that in any way.

Regards,
Mike

Thank you for your advice.
I did just that: printed on Epson glossy and the result was very similar to the metallic paper. A bit too dark.
I adjusted the monitor a bit darker.

Questions:
- I adjusted the color density setting to -10 and -20 (percent, I assume) but I saw barely any difference.
Does QImage bypass the Epson driver?

- Is there a utility that can estimate if the remaining ink is sufficient to complete a certain print and size?

Thanks!

Note to self: here's how to get the previous free nudging movement in previous disable 'Scissors function':
-click on down arrow (More Tools) in the image preview -situated on lower right corner
-in Layout tab, Print Size (mm), dropdown 'Select a standard size" =  Fit to Paper
- click on Cropping Tab (next to the Layout tab)- nudge photo to desire position

Not 100% sure what you mean by "templates" since those are usually part of a layout so I'm going to make some assumptions.  Just let me know if this is not what you mean.

As to individual "templates", you can mix as many portrait and landscape templates as you like in a job but the paper orientation itself is a driver setting and that can't change mid-job.  So if you are referring to printing a portrait job (that has portrait page orientation) and then starting a landscape job, you don't have to wait for the printer to be done printing to start the landscape job: you only have to wait for Qimage to finish processing.  Once Qimage has sent the portrait job to the printer, you can print the landscape job while the portrait job is still being processed by the spooler/printer and is still printing.

Regards,
Mike

I have two different templates that I use, portrait and landscape.  When I select the first one, portrait and set a number of prints going, do I have to wait until they are all done before beginning a new order with a different template?
Thanks!!