Digital BW, The Print

Hi Roy.

Thanks for the quick reply!

I rotated my 8x10 landscape image and printed it in portrait mode 
(with paper = letter and margins centered), but had the same problem. 
And by problem, I mean that after the image finishes printing (i.e. 
the image printed perfectly and there's a nice, clean edge), the 
print heads make a few extra trips back and forth, getting ink on the 
white border and on the edge of the image itself because the paper is 
no longer being held securely and gets turned a little by the 
movement of the print heads. 

Since I was prepared this time, I pulled the paper out as soon as it 
was done and the printer kept going, but no harm was done. Odd. No 
problems whatsoever when the print margins on the narrow (i.e.
8.5") side of the page are more than one inch. Maybe I'll
reinstall the software and see if that helps.

Mark 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" 
<roy@h...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mccarvill" 
> <mark_mccarvill@s...> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > 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? 
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > Thank you in advance for any suggestions!
> 
> It sounds a little like confusion of the image size and the paper 
size,
> but I'm not sure exactly what you are seeing with the "messy ink 
trail".
> Is the rest of the print just fine?  I.e. do you see the full image 
on the
> paper plus an extra amount added?  Or is the whole page messed up?
> 
> Since this only seems to happen in landscape mode the easy 
workaround 
> is to rotate you're image in Photoshop (or whatever program you are 
using)
> and printing in portrait mode.  (This is faster anyway since the 
rotate
> code in PS is very well optimized).
> 
> Roy