Digital BW, The Print

Turning the images is beyond the capabilities of the image software I am using.
If I understand you correctly, with roll paper the direction would always point
to the top of the image?

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Ernst Dinkla
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:37 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] QTRgui roll print direction
> >
> On the Epson driver you can select whether the image runs 
> head first or 
> feet first. And I was happy that your print direction showed 
> which way 
> it went. But as there's no choice in QTRgui than head first I 
> will keep 
> in mind that the print direction is upwards in the preview. That's my 
> gripe with driver software, it is so easy to turn the image 
> on its head 
> or the print feed direction or both and no one cares that we 
> like to see 
> some analogy with what happens in real life: Paper feeding 
> towards the 
> floor and the print starting at the feet. If you could keep the paper 
> feed direction in the preview from top to bottom for 
> everything printed, 
> sheets, rolls, oblong formats, whatever and turn the images in the 
> preview like they will roll from the printer then it gets 
> familiar again.
> 
> Wonder why I do not have that problem when reading maps.
> 
> Ernst
> 
>