Ernst,
Thanks for helping out. Lemme take these one at a time...
Mike,
On behalf of Bernard, Amsterdam. Het observes an odd thing printing with .117 to his Canon iPF8300 and not to his iPF9400. From time to time the destination of the printer data switches from the printer to the map the image comes from, not that the data arrives there though. He solves it by having two port addresses for that printer and a switch helps then till the next time it goes wrong. He is also someone who drops an image on Qimage Ultimate instead of using thumbnails etc in QU. He uses the recently introduced preference's setting that will not create the thumbnails then as I advised him recently. I never do that, I select the image in the thumbnails. I explain it as best as I can based on his phone call. The iPF9400 is the largest Canon wide format as you will know.
I think I can help here. I worked with another user, Scott Cohen, who had a similar (or perhaps exactly the same) problem on one of his Canon printers. When he tried printing to one of his Canons, QU produced a file such as "USB007" in the QU thumbnail folder instead of actually printing. We narrowed it down to some possibly incompatible or otherwise "bad" printer settings that were stored in one of his printer setups and in the printer settings that are remembered automatically when you start QU. The solution was to use "Help", "Reset Printer Settings" and then after opening QU again, set up the QU and driver settings manually: do not load any saved jobs or printer setups as those might have the bad driver settings. He got back to me right away that the reset solved the problem completely. So I think that's the solution. Somehow some bad settings are creeping into the stored/recalled driver settings that QU uses and resetting printer settings and then setting up the driver properties manually (through printer setup) seems to solve it.
I think related to this is something I observed lately. When I create a very large custom print page size in the HP driver, that size is not accepted. I do not know whether it is QU or the HP driver that blocks it. The size does not appear as a choice. But while creating it QU seems to spring to Print to File, at least that menu pops up when I go back to the printer icon fifth from right at the top. So I have to set the output back to the printer driver. The maximum length size that is accepted is 25400 mm so 1000". For practice this is no much of an issue, just to indicate this switch to print to file is odd.
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
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This is an easy one. The 1000" limit is actually an error check within QU. It interprets page lengths beyond 1000 inches as an error (driver reporting invalid length). When QU sees a length >1000", it interprets it as an error and switches to print-to-file. At the time that error check was enabled (some years ago), the longest driver specified length that I could find was something just over 500 inches (around 550 as I recall). Never heard of a driver length beyond 1000" (or rolls longer than 83 feet) until now. Of course, I can "relax" the error check a bit if needed. Is anyone really going beyond 1000 inches? And if so, what's the max that you are aware of? I would think that'd make things pretty hard to deal with too since even at 44 inches wide, 1000 inches makes for a page that is more than 22 times taller than it is wide so the page would look like a tiny/tall strip when working with it.
Regards,
Mike
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