The problem: Started after I began to print a QImage generated queue of 30 A3 sheets with different sizes of photo's on it. The third sheet started, half way the print, to show bad colors. Very red/magenta and much to dark.

What I did: checked all settings, drivers profiles etc. Shaked the cardridges, cleaned the nozzles, did the ultrasone cleaning in the maintenance menu, upgraded the firmware, de- and installed all drivers and colorprofiles. Nothing helped. This happened while using my Epson 7800 printer. I assumed something had 'broken' in this printer.

Therefore I switched to my 4800 Epson printer. Same results! To red, to dark! After de- and installing QImage, after installing QImage Ultimate all results were identical for both printers: unusable for delivery to my clients.

When my time arrives I shall not have deserved a place in heaven I'am afraid. For things being said by me every now and then the last week... But for the moment my live goes on ( for a long time, I hope ;-) I'll have to print anyway.

How I solved it: I found that I can print straight from Photoshop when I let PS manage the colors. The prints become perfect.

The question is: how to handle te be able to use QImage again?

Thanks in advance, Lex Salverda, Netherlands.

P.S: Perhaps anyone knows how to deep-delete QImage from Windows7, without leaving a trace?

Why not apply the same Let Printer Manage color to Qimage, setting teh driver to ICM, and Qimage will use the /pRGB.icm profile for the printer.
Make sure the paper selection is correct in the driver too.
So, ICM set for color in the driver and Qimage set to Let Printer Manage.

Give that a try.

Fred

Sounds like you need to re-make the paper profile.

If you test the system by using some Epson paper with the Epson profile that matches, and the prints are fine, then the printer is fine; inks, nozzles, and heads.
That is assuming you have the driver set to (OFF) No color adjustment and the correct paper selection made in the driver.

Fred

Mack,
Save your QU print set-ups and recall when you change printer, paper etc. etc.
Terry

Hi Mack,

If QU is not shut down properly you get the message attached below, I usually select Normal. Not that it happens very often unless I've done something silly.

The only occasion I can think of when QU asked about "last used" is when I choose a different profile from the Job Properties tab. QU, then, very sensibly asks if you want to use the same printer settings as the last time you used that profile. See second attached screen shot
Normally it would be "Yes". That very rarely occurs for me because I nearly always Recall the appropriate saved Printer Setup.
I can't remember when you are asked about reset or default, I'll get Fred to look at this post, he probably will know.

I'm sure there is consistency, it's the human touch that isn't 
Terry

Ah ha!

So maybe if I was printing documents (I was), and next day I went to print photos using QU, then the QU "Reset" or whatever pop-up window was due to the word processing software running the printer prior?  Would the same occur switching printers (I would think "No" but...?).

Dunno why shutting QU down (I hit the black X in the upper right to close it down), then using another printer software, then going back to QU opens the Reset or Yes window if another software has been run prior?  Seems if the other software (Word processor) can find the printer and run it without a verbal reprimand and questioning about prior usage, then QU should be able to do the same - unless the Word processor saves it's own ini file to call up and QU doesn't but rather forces you to make a decision as to which to call up.  I assume that QU is then asking me to pick some ini file previously used with those often cryptic pop-up windows?

Oh well.  So just say "Yes" is always the best answer.

edit --

Can QU reset the Epson driver software back to factory default where Color management goes from "No" to "Yes?"  Maybe the other software did it, but seems odd it changed.  Plus the colors look better "Yes" than "No" now too. (Re-profile is in order I'm guessing.).


Mack

Mack, I really get confused between the three issues you bring up; the Not Shut Down Properly, issue and the Reset printer to the settings used last time with this printer, issue; and the Qimage was shut down after using a different printer (in Qimage) See snap.

Which one is bothering you?

I print documents, emails and pictures.
Never have a problem (unless)   I open STUDIO to help someone with a studio problem.  Studio picks up my HP printer with the cheaper paper, so I can print and test for placement and size and stuff.
When I close Studio, and open Ultimate, Qimage sees the last printer and says, Whoa! Something doesn't match here.
It warns me to make sure Ultimate has the printer you really want. I have to switch back to my Epson with a click of the RECALL.

Studio is looking for the Default printer which is the HP.
If I want to stop the nonsense, I could make the Epson the default printer.

If I didn't have two versions of Q running at the same time, I would never have an issue. I choose to do that only to be able to replicate an exact screen to help someone.

So it boils down to using a hammer to pound in a nail, and not the handle of a screwdriver.


Only if you open HELP and click RESET PRINTER.
...or like me..... run two versions of Qimage.


This one is unrepeatable.

Qimage remembers its own printer used and the settings.
I just set the Epson to print an email from Live mail, plain paper, color on, low quality... and printed.
Opened Q-Ultimate and the Epson opens with the correct settings for the last glossy paper I used.
If you get anything other than what everyone else gets after using the printer with another program, you are either doing something strange, or there's a corrupted driver or something like that.

Fred

Yes, to the one & only chief QU guru, Mr C.
Terry