Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Rose"
<pjrose@f...> wrote:
> The 2200 Epson prints perfectly centered images--without any
> excluded top/bottom segments-- if the driver version called
> "Stylus Photo 2200 (Standard--Minimize Margins)" is used.
> This driver version is not to be confused with the one used
> for borderless printing (that's called "no margins" for the
> 2100?), which Epson calls "Stylus Photo 2200 (Sheet
> Feeder--Borderless)". Yes, the 2200 borderless option does
> print with somewhat expanded image size--something Epson does
> in order to help ensure  that the print will actually be
> borderless. IMHO, Epson goes too far in this regard (I print
> a 4x6" image scaled down to 3.85x5.775 in order to minimize
> the amount that the driver "trims" off my image.
> Phil

On a PC Epson 2100, I find that printing through the Epson driver with
a 3mm margin and "maximum printed area" gives me a fairly even margin,
within the limits of paper loading, but just recently I've had some
problems with QTR.  I used to establish an image size of 202x289 in
Qimage, which would give me a 4mm margin on an A4 page, and then tell
QTRGui to centre this.  But with a recent upgrade I'm getting a 5mm
margin at the top, and have had to remove the centre setting, specify
a 3.5mm top margin, and shorten the image size just a little.  Has
anything changed in this regard in QTR(Gui) recently?

In relation to borderless, if you're on a PC Qimage now has an option
to turn off the overspray.  On a 2100 this will work in some paper
settings, where overspray is achieved by the printer driver telling
the print software that the native print resolution is 757 rather than
720, but not where overspray is achieved by telling the printer
software that the paper size is larger than it actually is (4.9mm
larger in the case of the 2100).

HTH

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