Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dealy663"
<dealy663@h...> wrote:
> 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 View/Print Queue shows the file as a 7 x 4.56 430ppi
> 13MB file. So I printed to a tif file.

Reading this again carefully, I think I see your problem.  The custom
paper size in the Epson 2200 driver is irrelevant, because you're not
using the printer driver.  

To set the page size, first you have to choose "Print to File" in
Qimage and set the TIFF file dimensions (inches and DPI).  As I said
in my last post, my suggestion is to set this to entire printable area
of your page, i.e. it's physical size minus the margins.  Then in
QTRGui, you set the actual physical size of the page.  

If you follow this approach you don't position the image(s) on the
printed page in QTRGui.  The placement of the image(s) on the printed
page is handled entirely inside Qimage.

My suggestion is also to choose "Centered" in QTRGui, which centres
the TIFF output file from Qimage on the page.  This shouldn't be
necesary, but avoids any problems with uneven margins.  

This approach means that you are in effect using Qimage as the layout
half of a RIP, and QTR(Gui) as the printer driver half.

F_P