I own an art gallery and have a portfolio of images that are sold in limited edition. QImage ULT’s database and job recall will prove invaluable to our print department and perhaps allow me to be a photographer more and spend less time making sure that I am printing the portfolio correctly.  (I will have little need for package printing and for most of the wonderful features that have been incorporated into this multi-purposed (Swiss-army-knife) program.) Our PCs are connected to a Qnap network and we running two PCs printing to three Epson Printers, an older 7800, an Epson Surecolor P9000 with commercial ink (violet), and a new Epson7570 wititsit proprietary media installer system. I have watched many of the videos and think I got a handle on it unit I try to proceed to print. Hopefully, someone can help me find the specific videos that address my lack of understanding or just offer me simple advice.

First up, I need to understand just how to print a single image centered with equal or controllable white borders for an art-style limited edition print. What “Sizing methods” is best for this style of bordered-single-image printing? Is there a specific video that discusses this special sizes panel? (The image below is the Panel that I need to be explained)
 
I have a fairly good grasp of how the printer interface panel functions in conjunction with the properties tab that leads to the PS2023 printer properties driver, however on one printing attempt the media size in QImage was set to 13x19 and the PS print driver would only set itself to 17x22 in. When I would change the PS printer driver to match the QImage paper size the PS2023 print driver box would revert to 17"x22”. I repeated this multiple times and conclude stat I wasn’t in the proper paper size mode or something like that… (this malady was altering the centering of the bordered art print. )Does anyone have a clue what I was doing wrong?
 

Here are a couple of beginner's setup questions:

1.   After achieving an effective setup, and I save the Job, where does it store that job data, or does the setting data get stored?  Does saved job settings save the image with the data or does it look at the image in the location it was imported from… ( meaning that all images must remain stationary for job setting to be effective)

2.   I have set my editor preference to PS2023, and it will kick out of QImage live view out to PS2023 (for editing or adjustments). After making editing or cosmetic corrections will I have to save to the network and reload the thumbnail back in QImage or will it kick it back (like the adobe suite)


I hope my post and questions are worded enough for understanding ,,, I know I have many more questions so I appreciate all the help this community can offer. ( I tried to post 3 screenshots for clarification but this form seems to not accept jpegs under 256K)

John S. Hockensmith

Great! You gave us what we need for now... I'm sure that there will be more questions to come... We are really excited to have this software!


jsh

All of the questions you are asking have nothing to do with Qimage: those are all handled by the driver.  You are not seeing ICC profiles in the media types: Qimage is simply listing the media types that the driver is reporting.  The names might be the same (as some of your profiles) but if Qimage is showing them in "Media Type", it is a media type (reported by the driver), not a profile.  Again, the driver makes that list of media types that you see on the Qimage screen, not Qimage.

The head clearance and ink density are all controlled by the media type selected, so when you select a media type those values are set based on the stored settings for that media type.  In drivers that allow you to add your own (custom) media types, the driver updates the media type table with your custom type so that it appears in the dropdown in Qimage.  If it doesn't, it means the driver doesn't comply with Windows requirements (doesn't update the table as it should) which isn't the end of the world: you can still click "Properties" and select it in the driver.

We may get spoiled by Qimage having much more control over driver settings (without actually using the driver properties dialog) than other software but remember that you can always click that "Properties" button and make settings directly in the driver like any other software... so it isn't a limiting factor.

Regards,
Mike

Making Progress,

Everything seems to be working great with our Epson P7570, but we have a follow-up question about media type settings for our other Epson printer.

On the Epson P9000, we have created custom paper settings for some of our papers that require a higher print head or different suction, etc. These user-defined paper settings have been saved on the P9000 printer’s keypad interface.  These custom paper settings that are saved on the P9000 printer's board are not showing up in the QImage “media type” dropdown menu. All the custom Media settings for our P7570 show up in the QImage’s “media type” dropdown menu and work correctly (because the 7570’s r Media installer utility communicates with the QImage media type interface.) The Older Epson model P9000 does not communicate with QImage’s Media Type interface. Likely because the older P9000 does not have Epson’s new Media Installer utility)
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The question is - Does QImage use the settings we set for the “media type” dropdown box menu or does it use the settings that we select (as saved as custom paper types) on the P9000 printer's user-defined Keypad? Is there a way to get the custom paper type on our P9000 to show as an option in QImage’s “media type” dropdown? How can we create custom media/paper settings for the older P9000 using QImage?

Your replies have shed light and we are making significant progress.

Thank you for your insights and great support!

jsh

I apologize for not being able to articulate the question and its nuances… I do believe you answered my question and I can’t wait to get back to the studio and implement importing the media types into QImage.
John S. Hockensmith