I use Qmiage for all my printing to my ink jet printers with great success.  Lately there are may jobs that can be done at Costco at less cost and very good quality.  It seems that the obvious answer is to use "Print to File" to get all the advantages of Qimage in the files to send to Costco.

I can, and have, downloaded printer profiles for the Costco printers in my area.  To get the best results, the files need to be converted to the Costco specific printer profile and Qimage does that very well when saving the file.

On the surface, it seems that this should solve the problem, but there are some problems:
1.  There is no way to print to file without specifying a page size.  The Costco printers don't want a page size to start with -- you select that later 0n.  They want a 300 ppi file at the size specified.

2.  The entire page layout, including borders, is written to the file.  What is needed, is to write the file to file with just the image data only.  I tried to print to file using borderless prints, but I still get a white border around the data.

Other applications like Lightroom and Photoshop allow you to convert an image to a profile and save it.  That has worked very well for me, but I'm making a presentation  about color management and would like to feature Qimage as an application that can be used to send color corrected files to outside print labs.


Is it possible to just write the file data alone using "Print to File?"

Thanks!  Worked just fine!

Wil