Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mccarvill"
<mark_mccarvill@s...> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,

Hi Mark!
 
> Are there any QTR users setting their top / left paper margins at 
> less than .75" – or printing an image that, when
> automatically centered by QTR, results in a margin this size? 

Yes. QTR can use margins as small as 0.125 inch (a safety factor to
prevent overspray).
 
> The reason I ask is that, when I print an 8x10 on letter sized paper, 
> QTR leaves a messy ink trail on the left margin of the page (covering 
> about 1/4" of the image itself). Looks like it wanted to keep 
> printing but ran out of paper. (I'm letting QTR center the image top 
> and left). When I downsize the print to 7.75 x 9.75 it prints fine. 
> 
> I just printed a 12x18 on super b sized paper and again got a
> 1/4" ink trail on the image and more ink on the left margin of
> the page.
> 
> I'm an Epson 1280 user, on a PC and I'm only having this problem in 
> landscape mode. 

This may have nothing to do woth your problem, but are you telling QRT
to print 8x10 or 12x18? QTR gets the print size from the file itself,
so you have to set the size to 8x10 or 12x18 in the file itself (many
programs let you change the "image size" in a TIFF file, including
PhotoShop).

The size you set on the command line, the batch files, or in QTRgui is
the paper size. So, if you're setting 8x10, it's going to start
printing your image 7.875 to the left of the right edge of the paper
(8 inch paper size - 0.125 that I mentioned earlier) and continue to
the right until it runs out of paper 8 inches later, making a mess.

Hope this helps