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Re: [Digital BW] Re: QTR: print margins

2005-01-11 by Bill Morse

With 16² roll paper, in custom paper size, set the margins to .125 top,
left, and right, and .56 bottom- you¹ll be fine @15.75² width.

Regards,

Bill Morse
Digital Eye Editions
450 Harrison Ave. Studio 227
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 429-3298

http://digitaleyeeditions.com

on 1/11/05 6:47 PM, steveabrink wrote:

> 
> My margins on 16 in. roll paper came out to a max 15.35 in. width,
> and I need 15.6 in. to use pre-cut 16x20 in. mats!
> 
> Can someone tell me if/how to print as close to 16 in. width as
> possible?   I don't know what the prints margins are, and also using
> the custom paper size set-up...?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> SteveB  
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Unger"
> <ungram@f...> wrote:
>> > 
>> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen
>> > Billard" <stephenb@S...> wrote:
>>> > > QTR should be centering the image on the physical page if you
> check
>>> > > "Centered". Is this not what is happening?
>> > 
>> > My image on letter size was was just over 10" (255mm)x7.25"
>> > (185mm), landscape.  With center checked and to fit unchecked and
>> > image reduced to 96% the left margin was 13.5mm, the right was
>> > 9.5mm, top was 16.5mm and bottom was 13mm.  Using my eyeballing
>> > method proved different but no better.  After considering this I
>> > noticed that all sizes of paper share minimum margins of .125 on
> the 
>> > long side and .556 on the short side. This obviously must be taken
>> > into consideration in determining the maximum size of the image.
>> > 
>> > Andrew
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