Mike

The Virgin Install did it - no more problems.   

Hank

I'll give you as much input as I can but it's starting to look like your PC has some serious problems.  You seem to be a fan of these "snake oil" programs like cleaners, optimizers, and third party uninstallers.  Those are a recipe for turning your PC into a zombie machine and using those could have caused corruption even at the operating system level that could trickle into (random) programs!  Just my 2 cents.

If it crashed when you clicked the unclog button in Qimage (I assume that's what you mean since there is no unclog icon in the taskbar), there is something seriously wrong with your PC.  Clicking the unclog button does nothing but bring up another window.

We can try one last thing and if this doesn't work, you will have to find a way to repair your PC or just reset everything and reinstall Windows fresh (and not use the snake oil programs afterward).

• Uninstall Qimage using the normal Qimage uninstaller.
• Open a File Explorer window and type %appdata% in the top location bar and press enter
• Locate and delete the entire ddisoftware folder
• Open RegEdit (you can type RegEdit in Windows search)
• Type Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software in the top location bar and press enter
• On the left side list, locate and delete the ddisoftware entry and then close RegEdit
• Reinstall Qimage normally

After doing that, Qimage is installed as if it was never present on that PC (virgin install).  Since there is nothing saved that it will load that might be corrupted, it does nothing but open and read the photos in your Windows "Pictures" folder.  If it still crashes, the only possibilities are:

(1) The printer driver is still crashing
(2) Your PC has an underlying issue
(3) There are corrupted photos in your Windows "Pictures" folder.

Mike

Hi Mike

I did a full reset-
1. Uninstalled my Epson P800 drivers (didn't touch Epson WF-3640 - should I have reinstalled that also ?)
2. Uninstalled QImage using RevoPro which first uses the programs Uninstall (Unwise.exe) then scan for residuals in registry and windows nook and crannies.
3. Rebooted my PC
4. Reinstalled Epson P800 driver (no error and test printed page was perfect)
5. Reinstalled QImage Ultimate
6. Started QI holding Shift key down per instructions
7. QImage opened normally and when I touched the Purge/Schedule Unclog Ican in Taskbar, QImage immediately closed.
8. When I reopened QImage again, I was greeted with the "QImage-Did not shut down properly code 15-run" error box.
9, I attached the latest Install.log if that helps.

Hank

Again this (particularly #1) sounds like the printer driver crashing.  If Qimage shuts down after the unclog job is sent to the printer, that's the point where the printer driver should be returning control back to Qimage and about the only thing that can cause Qimage to crash at that point is the driver since it is happening after Qimage has finished processing the job.  It sounds like the driver or Windows spooler is crashing just after receiving the job... and that crash will take Qimage with it because Qimage is the "calling" program (to the driver).

Edit: Also since you indicated having trouble after printing, you could try changing your printer to "Microsoft Print to PDF" and print to that and see if the problem goes away.  If it does, it's almost certain the problem lies within your printer driver.  If you still have the problem, it's more likely to be a problem with the Windows spooler and a Windows update could be the issue (many Windows updates in the past have broken printing only to be fixed in the next update).

Mike

It's seems related to QImage -
1. When QImage is open and I have an unclog scheduled and I go to shut down QImage, I no longer have the option to have QI go to the system tray, it just shuts down. A restart at this point says QI shut down abnormally. It opens with a normal re-open command and will print the unclog pattern normally but as soon as it's sent to the printer will shut down.

2. Scheduled Unclog print no longer print - the program just seems to ignore the requested time. It ran one yesterday when it opened and i manually commanded a
unclog purge print.

CCleaner is manually run and has not been used since the problem started.

I will try the full reset as suggested.

Hank

Based on the information you posted, I can only say that it doesn't look like a Qimage problem because none of the errors seem to be coming from Qimage.  The first error messages both start with address 77 and are related to ntdll and those are always either the printer driver or Windows spooler.  That last error message about missing lcms2.dll is an installation problem where something on your system either deleted that DLL file or prevented the installer from installing it.  That one was why I asked about anti-malware.  I don't know what CCleaner is but anything with the word "Cleaner" in it is suspect in general and should be avoided!

If you want to try a full reset you could try reinstalling your printer driver (for the Windows default printer if you have more than one), reinstall Qimage, and then start Qimage while holding the Shift key to start it in safe mode.

Mike

The only programs I'm using are Microsoft Defender, Malwarebytes, and CCleaner. Never had a problem before with these programs - the only change I made is I moved the install folder from D: to C: to make complete restore disk images simpler (1 image instead of 2 to cover all installed programs). Did that several months ago and QImage has been working fine up until last Wednesday.

Sounds like you have an anti-malware program that is either deleting components of the installation or refusing access to the files.  What anti-virus/anti-malware program(s) are you using?

Mike

I'm really stuck - QImage refuses to open. After uninstalling, when I reinstall it usually opens but whenever I try to do some thing (Touch the unclog panel icon, change the paper size, open the File menu etc.) it shuts down. When I try to reopen it it tells me QImage didn't shut down correctly and do I want to start it "Normally" of try "Safe" mode. Either on repeats the same problem. I've also got the error seen in Figure 4.

How do I get QImage back to normal operation?

Thanks, that would already be great. I'm looking forward to this new version.

If I print a series of images with variable resolutions for an exhibition and I want the frame width to be approximately the same across all images, only the cutout resolution should more or less match the individual image resolution (at least in one dimension) in order to avoid too strong enlargement or squeezing of the frame due to scaling. But the aspect ratio wouldn't matter anymore.

In tutorials on similar framing in PS, they usually create a new layer below the image, expand the canvas of this layer and add some design to it. To me this looked more like a photo mat approach. That's why I came up with this suggestion.