Mike-I have a P800 which I haven't used in many months. I have problem which is nothing is printing for the yellow cartridge. Not  a single dot. I have tried your unclog program didn't help. Tried the builtin program heavy cleaning 3 times with a new cartridge but still no yellow dots. Anything else I can try or does it have to go back to Epson. I'm getting too old to wait for Epson to fix it. I assume its somewhere in the tube that goes from the cartridge to the printhead.

Jeff Jessee

I'm not sure it's really a creative frame, it just simulates a 2mm thick card board passepartout. Usually people give me an image and specify the length of one side of the printed image without the frame. Then, to avoid the hassle of precisely cutting a card board around, I was asked whether I could simulate the passepartout by printing this frame outside the image.

Anyway something seems not to work anymore, I haven't figured out what. I created a frame in Affinity Publisher and exported as tif. It worked fine. Then, based on this one, I adapted it to various frame  sizes (square, 1/2) but those don't work anymore. They show up in the cutout list but they are not applied and when clicking Done and saving, the thumbnail disappears in the main window.

Like everything in Qimage, it's a sticky setting so once you set it, it will spool and cool until you turn it off.

Regards,
Mike

Photo mats don't have that problem because they are literally a single mat that sits behind prints.  What you are talking about is not a photo mat: it's a creative frame.  So to use those you have to work within their capabilities and do as you suggest: create then in common sizes.  Most people tend to want common print sizes so you really are matching the print size and not the image aspect ratio so you would only need to match a few common print sizes.

Mike

Will this option be applied to all printing jobs?
If I set up this "Spool and Cool" option, will I be able to print my other printing jobs in an ordinary (quicker) way? Or after setting up this option all jobs will be printed 1 page per day?

I've created a cutout frame template in tiff format (length/height = 3/2) and it works. But this solution has probably a drawback with the stretching of the frame. If the image isn't exactly proportional to the cutout template in the length/height ratio, the frame will be stretched dis-proportionally, i.e. the distances of the outside lines from the image are not the same on the top and bottom as on the left and right hand side. For example: the cutout with a 3/2 ratio applied on an image with a 2/1 ratio results in a distance of 2mm on the left/right, as defined in the cutout template, but is reduced to less than 1.5mm on the top and bottom. Depending on the amount of stretching this can be quite visible.

I could create a series of cutouts which fit the most common image ratios to avoid very visible distortions but since I print for many other people, images come often with freehand cropping. So I cannot accommodate all ratios. Wouldn't a photo mat solution not have this problem? It stretches the mat out of the image according to the settings in the dialog box, right? 

OK thanks, I'll try that.

You can already do that with a cutout/frame.  There are some included with Qimage but you can create your own that have any style including drop shadows, wooden frames, etc.

https://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/help/function.htm#cutouts

Regards,
Mike

Hello,

Would it be possible to add an option where the color of each side of a photo mat can be defined. Currently only the width can be defined individually but the selected color applies to all sides.

This would allow to add sort of a 'digital' picture frame passepartout around the image (instead of a card board). For example two sides in white and two in light grey (shadow). I can then add a thin black line around it (second mat). 

I've seen people doing that in Photoshop (probably a macro) but I don't want to pass every image through PS before printing.

Christian

I've set-up two unclog 'jobs' for a certain day/time.
But "out of the blue" will there be a 'unclog job', without a command. I notice, that in the 'footer' is an incorrect day/time stemp. I have running a small piece of software, synchronized the OS time each 30 minutes. [Network Time Synchronization]

Has anybody an explanation? My PC is 24/07 on & QI is running in the background (System Tray).

With regards, Martin.
from the Netherlands