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RE: [Digital BW] Qimage + QTR sizing problem

2004-11-05 by Stephen Billard

You need to set the page size in Qimage to 5x7. When Qimage prints to file,
the image size it creates is the page size you have selected.

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dealy663 [mailto:dealy663@...] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:20 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Qimage + QTR sizing problem
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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 the page 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
> 
>

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