Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

I'm not new to Qimage but I've only just started using Ultimate.

When I opened the application, using existing "jobs" from QI Studio, "Poster Mode" appeared in the preview window. I've never seen this before. I can't find anything in Help about any printing mode, or how to select or deselect it.

The printer is a Canon Pixma Pro-1, and I can't see anything obvious in its driver settings.

How do I do it?

Regards

John

Hi John,

This sign shows up when your previous print size exceeded the paper size.
Either you shut down Qimage having left it with a small paper size and a larger print size and QU remembered the last setting for you, or you had 8 x 10 in use, and went into Page setup and changed the paper to 4 x 6.
Therefore the 8 x 10 will not fit on 4 x 6 so you get a notice that you are in Poster Mode. This just means you should recheck paper and print size to match, or you really can print a large print using smaller sheets, in POSTER MODE which will come out on multiple pages which you paste together.

Fred

I think there might be a little more to this. It happened after I had gone back briefly to my Studio version to make some comparisons - I had set up some print job settings in Studio ages ago that worked fine with the Canon Pro-1 printer.

After I closed Studio and restarted Ultimate is when I got the Poster Mode message. Eventually I found it was one of the printer jobs I was recalling, but it doesn't stop there! I had set two very similar jobs on the Pro-1 with identical page sizes, margins and so on. The only thing that differed was the paper finish; one was gloss and the other lustre (but neither was an "art paper" - I know that the Pro-1's margins are different with that). The gloss one worked, the lustre one gave the Poster Mode message. So all I did was to change the paper type in the gloss version and re-save it as a lustre (overwriting the previous file) - problem went away.

I can't explain it though!

John

Interesting!!
There is an interaction between Studio and Ultimate in that opening Studio which has a different ini file, calls for a different set of parameters for the Job Properties, placement and I think Last Job.
Depending on what was being used in Studio last time, it tried to open but shares the printer setup with Ultimate.
When I go back and forth between, some newer saved printer setups made with Ultimate will not play well with Studio, so Studio will move to my default printer, an old HP.
Now when I open Ultimate again, it sees the saved HP printer and opens with that one in place.

Here's MY cure. Maybe it will help.  (Of course, after you finally cut the umbilical to Studio, you will not even think of it)  When I open Studio for some reason... and I play, print, whatever, I make sure I EXIT STUDIO using FILE EXIT WITHOUT SAVING

If you feel like it, how about emailing a printer setup (they are a pair) that makes poster Mode appear?

email address is: wathree.ssz@verizon.net

Fred

Aha! That makes sense. I noticed this too - Studio wanted to print to my default printer - an OKI laser.

I'll happily send you my printer setups if you can tell me which file(s) I'm looking for! I have Studio on an old XP PC too and I notice the printer setup files on that are .prt extensions but the ones in Ultimate are .job - I now only seem to have .job files on my Win7 computer.

Regards

John

Print setups are saved after clicking  the "P" button in SAVE.  You recall them the same way; click the "P" button for printer.
A Job is saved or recalled in similar fashion by clicking the "J" button.
The JOB contains the print setup plus a lot more... such as settings and the images too.
When you said you recalled a job, I read
But a saved job is more complex than a printer setup.
That might contain various sizes of prints.

By the way, if you right click a button in SAVE (JSLOAP buttons), you can set one as the default.

After all, Ultimate really is a new program, and there might be some saved Jobs or printer setups that you might have to resave while in Ultimate.

The printer setups have 2 parts. a .PRT and a .pr1
Simpler to just resave new ones.

Fred