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.

That's correct.  Remember that cutouts and frames are image edits and not print add-ons so they are applied to the image.  You could then decide to print that image at any print size so the frame that got "stamped" on the image gets resized since it is part of the image.

Attached is the change: new on the top, old on the bottom.  I intentionally created a very wide image and then applied the wood frame.

P.S.  The next version will have improved frame logic so that even though the frame might get scaled like the image, the edges don't get distorted if your image differs significantly from the frame design WRT aspect ratio.  So that will make one variable easier.

Regards,
Mike

Today, when I tried to run the Unclog Utility, QI just closed and gave me notice Fig 1, Tried again and same result.

Tried Safe Run and same,

Rebooted my PC (Win11, (24H2), NVidia 4070 GPU, 64Gb RAM, 2Gb SSD etc.

Uninstalled using RevoPro Uninstaller and reinstalled from a fresh download. Same problem except now it sometime gives Error violations Fig 2 & 3.

Don't know where to go from here. 



Hank

I solved the problem with the cutout frames but is my understanding correct:
If I want the border around the image to be always about 2 mm wide (like with a card board frame), not only the length/height ratio of the cutout template has to be similar to that of the image but also the size/resolution.
 
For example I want to print an image at 300 x 200 mm at 300 dpi. Then the cutout template should also have approximately the same dimensions, i.e. the black cutout for placing the image should be around 300x200 @300 dpi with a border around of 2 mm wide. If I create one at 100 x 67 mm @300 dpi and apply it to a print of 300 x 200 mm, then the border will be much larger than 2 mm, cecause it will be stretched proportionally, right?
The calculation for stretching goes probably via pixels (resolution of the images versus resolution of the cutout template) rather than selected print dimension. So I would have to pay attention to the 'most common' image resolutions when creating various cutout frame templates.

I get what you are trying to do but I just don't see this being a useful option at all:

(1) If your printer doesn't clog even after a year, you don't need to try to use random photos as "unclog sheets".
(2) If the printer does clog, you should be using the unclog sheets and not photos.
(3) If you are trying to so something like prevent a printer from printing a cleaning cycle after 24 hours, printing a half sheet unclog on copy paper makes sense.

In the end, no one is going to want to wait 3 days to get the photo on page 3 and you'll end up printing throw-away photos that no one wants, wasting photo paper when you could just print an unclog pattern on a half sheet of copy paper.  The unclog uses WAY less ink (and balanced ink usage) than a photo anyway and you can print them on copy paper.  Then you can print the photos you want when you want them.  Even in a case where you print a lot of the same photo(s) for stock, if you are circumventing a 24 hour cleaning cycle you'd be better off using a purge sheet that balances ink usage, uses very little ink, and uses throw-away copy paper so you can be sure you are doing enough to circumvent that 24 hour cleaning cycle (they put that there for a reason) and just print what you need when you need it.

In addition, you can already print one photo a day using the mentioned spool and cool option which should be adequate for this niche workflow.

Mike

If talking precisely from the unclog perspective, you must be right. However:
1. As far as I understand, the majority of people use this function in order to save ink from a purging process of their printers. At least, it corresponds to Canon printers.
2. Contemporary printers get clogged less than it used to be. My dye-ink Canon Pro-100 didn't get clogged even after more than year of inactivity (the printer was switched off)! And it happened twice! Some users of pigment-ink Canon printers claim that their printers don't get clogged after a few months of inactivity.
3. Even in a BW mode printers use not only monochrome inks but color inks as well. I'm sure that when printing color images printers will use almost all colors. Surely, some colors may be used in a small amount but it still can be enough to avoid clogging.

Now I have a pigment-ink Canon Pro-1000 printer. It is said that if I don't print anything in 24 hours, it will initiate a self-cleaning process that wastes a few ml of inks. So I have to print something every day. At the same time I don't see any point in messing around with everyday unclog printing when I could print my photos instead. Automatically, ofcourse.

That's probably going to cause more problems than it solves.  It prints a purge sheet because that is effective at keeping nozzles exercised so for the purpose of exercising the nozzles, there is no substitute for the unclog pattern.  Printing a batch of "random" photos over time (say one a day) could lead to problems because it won't exercise the nozzles the way it should, some colors may not be accounted for (or not enough) and using it that way could give you a false sense of security thinking you are doing proper exercising of the nozzles when you are not.

Regards,
Mike

I see. Then maybe it's not a bad idea to create a new option in the Unclog menu so that Qimage will print not a color pattern but a pile of photos one at a time. This way it'll be more useful.