Roll Paper Printing

mvsoske

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« on: April 24, 2023, 05:37:06 PM »

I am attempting to print on roll paper using Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper which has a profile setting for my Epson p800 of Velvet Fine Art. But whenever I have Velvet Fine Art in the media type window, the software will not let me choose roll paper, it defaults to Front-Fine Art. What am I doing wrong?

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Fred A

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Re: Roll Paper Printing

« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2023, 09:39:54 PM »

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Fine Art. But whenever I have Velvet Fine Art in the media type window, the software will not let me choose roll paper, it defaults to Front-Fine Art. What am I doing wrong?

Works for me here.
See screen snaps.
After you select User Defined size, then set the size you want in the size box. I chose 32.0 x16.0. The click the check mark to set it. It even finds the correct profile all by itself.
See screen snaps and loo at details.
I assume you not meddled with the driver, but AI is on by default.
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Re: Roll Paper Printing

« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2023, 01:07:27 AM »

I don't have the P800 driver but I have the P700 and P900 and I tried both: there's no problem selecting roll paper with Velvet Fine Art paper. See attached. I selected a custom size 17x25 after selecting Velvet Fine Art, then selected Roll Paper.

I suspect some setting in the driver is not compatible with roll paper and the driver isn't allowing it under your current settings. Open the driver using "Properties" and set it to roll paper in the driver: then if it has a problem with some of your other settings, the driver will tell you.

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mvsoske

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Re: Roll Paper Printing

« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2023, 01:57:08 PM »

Thank you for the input, but no joy. No matter what I do, Velvet Fine Art paper setting will not let me print on roll paper! I can do it from Lightroom, and I can do it from Photoshop, but for some reason, Qimage won't let me! When I am in Qimage and go to the Epson driver settings, roll paper is greyed out - but only when in Qimage! Works without Qimage. Can't figure out what in Qimage is impacting this situation.


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Re: Roll Paper Printing

« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2023, 03:18:02 PM »

So it's not Qimage that is preventing you from picking roll paper: it is the driver as I said. If you can't figure out which setting is not compatible with roll printing and why the driver isn't allowing it, hold the Shift key while you click on the "Properties" button to open the driver. That will open the driver with printer defaults (like Lightroom and Photoshop do since they don't know how to save/recall driver settings) and that should reset whatever setting is making the driver gray out roll paper. Then select roll paper in the driver.

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Re: Roll Paper Printing

« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2023, 03:31:51 PM »

I found the problem! See attached. Apparently the P800 won't allow you to print on roll paper with Velvet Fine Art if quality is set to the highest. Not sure why this is a problem on the P800 because both the P700 and P900 allow it! The P600 through P900 are some of Epson's most inconsistent drivers, meaning they are all non-standard and all work differently.

In any case, you can't use the max resolution driver AI setting if you want to print on roll paper while using Velvet Fine Art media. So click the gear button next to the driver "Properties" button and uncheck the next-to-last option that says "Always set driver print quality to highest available". Then you can click that driver "Properties" button and click on "Quality" and set it to 4 instead of 5. Then the driver will allow you to use roll paper.

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mvsoske

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Re: Roll Paper Printing

« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2023, 12:32:02 PM »

Excellent! Thank you very much! That did the trick.


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