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Title: Size issues? Post by: Mack on April 29, 2014, 05:04:17 PM Cut 11x17 canvas (Okay 11.25" for trimming). Set QU (ver. 2014.212) up to "Fit to Page." Seemed okay on the right pane in QU.
However, the print came out maybe 6.5 x 8 on the canvas, even though "Fit to Page" was checked? Screenshot (attached) shows the image and the size fitting (Page: 16.995 x 10.995 in.), but the output canvas (attached JPG) differed? Ideas before I waste another sheet of canvas? Mack Title: Re: Size issues? Post by: admin on April 29, 2014, 05:20:20 PM You have a "reduce" option enabled in the driver. If you hold the mouse over the actual print and read the size that pops up, that is the exact size that is being sent to the driver. It is accurate down to the pixel because the size that is showing there is the actual size that is sent to the driver: it gets that data from the image that is actually being sent to the driver. In other words, there is no way Qimage Ultimate is "off". It's the driver. Check your driver and you'll find a "reduce/enlarge" box checked somewhere or maybe a "fit to page" setting checked in the driver. If any option like that is checked, the driver takes the incoming size and modifies it. QU has no control over that because the driver is tweaking the size.
I see you are using a 3880. In the driver under the "Page Layout" tab, make sure "Same as paper size" is selected for the "Output Paper" option. Many people don't realize that when you change that (if you drop down "Output Paper" and select 11x17 as the size for example), you've just gone into a "reduce" mode. Ever since Epson put that confusing option in their driver, a lot of people have been caught by that. Mike Title: Re: Size issues? Post by: Mack on April 29, 2014, 05:49:19 PM Thanks Mike.
Found it under "Page Layout" in the Epson driver. They buried in pretty well. Epson sure screwed up on that addition. I couldn't get the "Same as paper size" suggested at first as it is not in the pull downs. Seems if I unchecked the default (?) "Reduce/Enlarge" and "Fit to page radio" button in the Epson Page Layout window, then it automatically puts "Same as paper size" in the Output Paper window. I also noticed while fiddling in there and "Paper Size" showed "US B 11 x17" and I put "US B 11 x 17" in the "Output Paper" size box so both were the same, the left pop-out pane showed it reducing output down 98% even though both are the same size paper now? Epson sure messed up that thing! back to printing.... Mack |