Hi Chris,
It sounds as though you are printing to file and have a dot in the RIP box. That will treat all images, including mats on the page, as individual files.
Remove to dot, see attached screen shot of the save dialogue.
Terry

Hi Chris,
So you are printing to printer and not to file.
I cannot reproduce your problem here, maybe it was due to the printer being switched off.
When you try again, set the driver to get a print preview, that way you see what you will be getting before printing.
One other thought, had you accidently got the background image on an additional page?
You should be able to recall that print job from the auto job log (File menu, see attached below) -it is set by default unless you have turned it off. That way you can check what you actually sent to the printer.
Terry

Hi Chris,
Chris. Was following along with Terry, and I even made my own test template etc.
The only way I can make the background come out first as a single page is when I messed up my job.
(I've done this!!)
I put the beginning of my job in the queue. I forget to click the red F button and the next addition goes on page 2, but I didn't see that.
Oh fudge, I lost my initial input so I put it back in.
I now have 2 pages... I didn't realize it... page 1 comes out first.

I thought you were printing to file too....
I hope you saved the JOB and can recall it.
That's the only way I can think if for you to get two pages....
You can also click the Print queue tab and actually see the items being sent to the printer.
This is my test screen.

Fred

That will happen when Qimage warns you that your print will not fit on one sheet.
It usually shows you a red 2x at the top  left. Then it puts all it can on one page and the rest on page 2.
Use FIT TO PAGE for your black part. Select it, and set the size to Fit to Page.
Fred

YES, it now works!!
It was just odd that qimages printer queue didn't show that it was going to print on 2 pages
Anyway it working now after adjusting the size of the background image

Many thanks for the help!

Chris

Edit. Oddly it didn't have the red 2x2 warning text with the initial problem

Chris,
Qimage only shows that 2x or 4x once, and you select yes or no to continue like it is or put on one page.
It's more than a warning in the sense that there will be times when you want to have it print on multiple pages; when you make a poster for example.
See screen snap. It is saying that it will need 2 pages wide to fulfill my request of 12.0 x 8.0.
Then when you go to correct, you get the choice select screen.

OK I think you have it now.
Fred