I did the experiment, though not in the best possible way.

The challenge I found in printing using Advanced B&W through Qimage (note:  I am running Windows 7 in VMware, so this may be an artifact...) is that the default for Advanced B&W in the driver for "Color Toning" is NOT "Neutral", but "Darker".   And whenever I reset the default in the Qimage printer settings popup, it didn't 'stick'.  So I suspect that when I actually went to print from Qimage it printed "Darker".

But even so, using a real and very good (200+dpi) b&w photo, I could see no difference between what Qimage produced with a printer profile for my paper, and using "Advanced B&W Color" plus "Let printer driver manage color".   (I didn't use a test strip.)

Seeing all the options under Advanced B&W Color in the driver made me wonder whether that set of tools/settings were created back in the days when B&W images were scanned from b&w film and before photographers got good at adjustments in image printing tools.    I have no idea, but the adjustments allow for a lot of changes, but pretty subtle ones.   Head scratcher, at least for me.

Thanks for suggesting the experiment, Mike.

You don't seem to understand that Qimage is showing you the only way you can split that image into three 18x24 panels: three panels top to bottom (1x3).  You said you want a final image that is 24 wide by 54 tall: that's one across (24) by 3 tall (3*18).  You can't take a vertical (portrait) image like that, print it at 24x54 keeping the portrait look, and split it vertically three ways and get three 18x24 panels left to right.  Look at the image on screen.  It's already vertical so if you print that at 24x54 and you split it three equal ways left to right, you'd end up with three equal panels of 8x54 inches each.  Not 18x24.

Mike

You got it right with this one and if you had clicked "OK" to accept those three panels pictured by the green boxes (you cut off the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons but they are there past the bottom of your screen shot), you would have gotten the three panels in the queue:



Did you click "OK" on that dialog?  If so, it would have added the three panels to the job.  It looks like you had been fooling around and added multiple copies of the image before doing the multi-panel print so the multiple panels could have been on subsequent pages.

And again, there was no need to resize the image in another program.

Mike

Last pic

Another pic

Ok here are my steps. First off I apologize for all the effort you have given but something is not right.

1. Resized image to 54x24 using Affinity Photo
2. Brought that image into Qimage as a 54x24 image and shows that size when you hover your mouse over the image.
3. Setup the multi panel with crop on, set panel size to 18x24 with 3 columns and 1 row and now the print size is now shown to be 54x24
4. Now I generate this and do not get 3 panels of 18 wide x 24 height.

Please confirm my steps are correct? If so then I am including some pics to show the green lines as horizontal not vertical as I need. I am also including a pic of how I want to print these panels in this type of format with one on top of the other on my Canon 24" printer

I should also point out that the multi-panel print UI is super versatile so you can go at this from any angle.  You can give it the final print size and rows/cols like I've been instructing, BUT...

You can also specify the panel size and rows/cols and Qimage will automatically calculate the final print size.  Like this:

• As always, we make sure the crop button is enabled on the top left of the multi-panel UI
• Click on the "Panel Size" tab and specify a panel size of 24 x 18 by entering 24 in width and 18 in height
• Click on the "Cols/Rows" tab and specify 1 column and 3 rows
• Click "Generate"

Since Qimage knows you want 1x3 panels of 24x18, it'll automatically calculate the final size of 24x54 and you'll get your three 24x18 panels.

The key is, there are three parameters involved when making any multi-panel print: (1) size of each panel, (2) number of panels in rows/cols, and (3) the final print size.  The UI is set up so all you have to do is specify any TWO of those three parameters and it can (and will) calculate the third.

Mike

I don’t think you have to do anything with printer driver.

QImage - Printer and Settings
Choose your Printer
Choose your Media Size - I’m guessing yours will say 24” roll

You don't need to do any of that.  Your image is not 19.76 x 24.05: images don't have "size".  They have pixels.  Qimage can print any image at 54 x 24 with 18x24 panels.

I know this is my third time saying this so maybe the third time is the charm, but all you have to do is type in the print size you want at the top of the multi-panel UI.  In your video, the print size shows as 19.76 x 24.35 because that's the most recent print size you used.  Just type over that and type 24 x 54.  Then if you split it 1x3 (which makes the most sense to me if you want the final to be three 24x18 panels), you'll get three 24x18 panels.

And yes, you can print 18x24 panels on your 20 inch roll: Qimage will automatically turn the panels so the 18 inch side prints across the width.  It has to; it can't print 24 inches wide on a 20 inch roll.

The bottom line is if you followed my 4 steps I posted on September 23, it would work perfectly.  Not sure why, but you keep wanting to skip the step where I said Just enter 54x24 up top as the "Print Size".  Without that, Qimage has no idea what final size you want and it'll just assume you want that last-used 19.76 x 24.35 size.

Mike

It's under Edit, Preferences, Remove Prints Automatically.

Regards,
Mike