Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Stephen, that worked. So nice to be able to "get under the hood".

At 09:17 PM 12/3/2004, you wrote:


>I checked my Epson 2200. It will allow sizes as small as 3.5x3.5 inches for
>User Defined page sizes. If anyone wants to, they can change the minimum
>sizes in the PPD file to reflect what their driver allows.
>
>Edit the ppd file with a text editor. You can use Notepad, but it does not
>show line breaks.
>
>Look for "ParamCustomPageSize". You will find several, the ones of interest
>are the "ParamCustomPageSize Width" and "ParamCustomPageSize Height", There
>are some numbers following these the word "points". The first number is 504
>for both "Width" and "Height". Change it to 252 for the Epson 2200. This
>number is the number of points for the minimum width and height. There are
>72 points to an inch, so if your printer has a minimum different from 3.5,
>you can compute the correct value.
>
>-Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Atherton [mailto:timatherton@...]
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:56 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: QTR and size problem
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > New with version 2.1 of QTR & QTRgui. These limits are what the
> > > printer specs say are minimum page sizes. QTRgui gets the
> > limits from
> > > the PPD file. Although, now that I look at it, maybe Roy should
> > > comment. The 2200 has a page size you can select that is
> > 5x7 but has a
> > > custom page size minimum of 7
> > > inches. I'm not sure I understand.
> >
> >
> >  it will also let you pick 4x6 in the dropdown in the GUI
> > (which i have printed). The epson driver will let me make
> > custom sheet sizes far small than 7"
> >
> > tim
> >
>
>
>
>
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