No.  There would be little to no benefit to using the GPU to just display images.  Been pretty quiet on the camera and printer front too so not a lot of new stuff to support.  I'm working on the next paradigm shift in print quality but some of the work is dependent on third party tools so I'm at the mercy of other companies before I can implement them.  We've reacjed a local maximum with respect to print quality but these new tools will change that and allow us to leap forward.  It's just going to take some time.

Mike

Hi Mike, are u planning to add GPU support for image display? its been quiet on the release front for a while

I don't know anything about that printer but in searching online, it looks like you have to connect it to your PC via WiFi.  Take a look at this video.  If it works, the printer should show up in Qimage once it is added as a device in Windows:

https://youtu.be/w3jp-l8QI8s?si=c2c1QCaPEUCn8eru

I have no idea whether it works or not, but worth a try.

Regards,
Mike

Some years ago I played with a Selphy CP xxx, that was connected via USB to an Windows-System. I had an ICC-profil and the results with Qimage have quite good.
Now I bought a new printer, a CP 1500.  But there was no software or driver. I found out: It is a Mopria Printer. This seemes to be quite a different world. No driver, no profiles.
I don't understand this maschine. Ok, printing from my smartphone works via WLAN. Any idea how to use this box from an "normal" windows box. The used driver is a Microsoft IPP-Class-driver.
Any idea to solve this issue.

Thanks
Winfried

I would keep it in portrait and as long as you turn on auto roll length (next to media size) and you have a 24 inch width set, Qimage will manage the length.

Regards,
Mike

I am using rolls now mainly 24" x 100ft what settings should be in the media size field, and should it be portrait or landscape orientation? I don't plan to ever print borderless. Canon Pro 2100

Thanks.  The videos are great.  What I think might be the easiest (and no calculations) would be to create a layout or several layouts depending on your needs.  You could add a template (last thumbnail in any folder) and then add a photo mat around that template and save that as a layout.  As an example, you could add a template at size 50 x 30 and then add a photo mat to that template and specify 10 for all 4 sides of the mat.  You'll end up with a 70 x 50 mat with a 50 x 30 template in the middle.  If you never want to crop images and want the aspect ratio to "conform", make sure the auto crop button on the Prints tab is OFF.  Then click the print placement button under the live view and select "Save current as custom layout" and give it a name.  Then when you pick (use) that layout, every time you add an image by clicking the + on a thumbnail or dragging a thumbnail and dropping it onto the empty template, that image will fill the 50 x 30 area of the template.  If the image is a different aspect ratio (like 3:2), it automatically fits and centers it within the template and your mat is still 70 x 50 as that is unaffected.  The 3:2 image would go into the template and be sized 45 x 30 because your template identifies the minimum borders on all sides.  If you want different minimum borders, just adjust the size of the template to get anything you like.

Maybe this will work?  You could define several of these layouts with different template sizes inside your 70 x 50 mat to get different amounts of border(s).  They don't even have to be equal.  Just remember that when you insert an image into the template that is a different aspect ratio (than the size of the template), it will just fit the image into that "window", centering within the template area.

Mike

Ok…thanks….so I have to do the math, can’t just have it fill the empty space….gotta get out the calculator 😀

Yes we always cut to 70x50 since that's the size of our frames. The logic behind the size of the print depends on the picture itself. What's the aspect ratio, orientation an what size of matte the author desires himself. Some like more whitespace around their photos others less.

Thanks for the explanation, this is indeed what I was looking for.

The downside for me with this is that I have to calculate the borders for each different picture because of the different aspect ratios of all the pictures. Ideally  it would be interesting to be able put the picture on the layout board at desired size (45, 50, 60cm...) and then be able to tell the software to grow a matte around it to the exact dimension I want, with the pictured centered inside that matte (70x50 in my case). A bit like in photoshop where you can choose the expand the canvas to a fixed value, or relative to the existing size.


Perhaps a video is worth a thousand words  :

This is a videoclip from our exhibition last year.
You can see how we present our work. All our frames are 70x50. And we insert a 70x50 cardboard with the photo fixed to it in those frames.

This is a videoclip where I explain a little bit more

For the exhibition we have 100+ photos to process, that's why I'm looking for the most efficient way to do this.

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