Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Hans Van
Rafelghem <hvr@a...> wrote:
> dealy663 wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've wasted a fair amount of ink and paper tonite trying to 
> >figure out how to use Qimage together with QTR and QTR gui. My
> >problem is that even though everything looks right in Qimage
> >when I drop the file on the QTR gui it comes out at approximately
> >the right resolution on thepage but only the center of the
> >image is printed.
> >
> >For instance, in Qimage I selected a custom paper size in my Epson
> >2200 driver 8.5x5.5" half sheet. Then I set my print size to 5x7 in
> >Qimage and double clicked on the psd file that I wanted to print.
> >The Qimage print preview shows what I expect, my image
> >(originally 2008x3000 from a D100) takes up most of the half 
> >sheet. The View/Print Queue shows the file as a 7 x 4.56 430ppi
> >13MB file. So I printed to a tif file.
> >
> >In QTR gui I chose a custom paper size of 8.5w x 5.5l. I set 
> >the top and left starting points at 0.125" and unchecked the
> >centered box.
> >Then I dragged the file that Qimage output on to the QTR gui
> >and out comes a print that is positioned properly on the page
> >but only 4.5 x 4.125 inches.
> >
> >I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Can someone post their
> >printing workflow from PSCS to Qimage to QTR to 2200? Or at least
> >offer up a suggestion as to what maybe wrong here.
> >
> >Thanks, Derek
> >  
> >
> I'm not familiar with " sizes but you can check the size of the
> >Qimage generated TIF file by opening it again in Photoshop.
> 
> Hans Van Rafelghem

I agree that it's not obvious what you are doing wrong.  When I am
uncertain about size and placement, I try to examine the Qimage output
file in an image editor before I waste ink and paper, wherever
possible.

My approach has been not to position the image on the page in QTRGui.
 In Qimage I set the size of the tiff file to be the size of the
printable page area.  I work in metric, so for an A4 page where the
non-printable margins are 4mm on a 210x297mm page, I set the tiff file
size at 202x289mm at 360dpi.  In QTRGui I set the page size as A4 and
tell it to centre the image on the page just to be sure.  Then all
placement and sizing issues are handled inside Qimage.  

I haven't had the sorts of problems that you describe.  The only
problem that I had was when I tried using a 3mm margin (long story
here), and it split the image over 4 pages, ¼ on each.  That is a
good
way to waste paper.

HTH

F_P