Digital BW, The Print

F_P,

> 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.  

Can you explain why you output from Qimage at 360dpi? My 
understanding (probably faulty :-) is that Qimage would output
the image to an Epson printer at 720dpi. I'm trying to work
out what my strategy is now, for example:

1. do PS stuff
2. bring it into Qimage, setting the tiff output file at 202x289mm
   (for an A4) at 360 (720? 1440? 2880?)dpi
3. bring it into QTRGui and set the full 210x297mm page
   (centered)

Apart from the 360/720 question (and where does 1440/2880 come
in???), I've had problems with PS->QTRGui where I've had a
landscape image, told QTRGui I'm using landscape orientation,
putting the paper into the 2100 as a landscape, and it's
a) printed it as a portrait, and b) cut off half of it by
starting halfway up the paper (even halfway up a portrait
piece of paper). I've taken to making sure everything is
in portrait format, from the file to QTRGui to the paper
in the printer. Not much extra work, but it did peeve me off
at the time.

Regards
Robert