Digital BW, The Print

I am using QuadTone RIP and ran into a strange problem. I'm
printing 
with a 7500 and have been printing using the defined paper sizes in 
the program. I just tried to print an image on a 17X22 piece of 
paper. This size is not defined. I went to CUSTOM and set this size 
up. I then proceeded to try and print but the program will not pass 
the information to the printer. This only seems to happen with custom 
paper sizes and not with the predefined sizes. I'm not sure where
the 
problem is. QTR, Gimp-Print or Ghost? Has anyone else encountered 
this and have you solved it.

					John H

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 06:49  PM, Mr_Misty_44 wrote:

> I am using QuadTone RIP and ran into a strange problem. I'm
> printing
> with a 7500 and have been printing using the defined paper sizes in
> the program. I just tried to print an image on a 17X22 piece of
> paper. This size is not defined. I went to CUSTOM and set this size
> up. I then proceeded to try and print but the program will not pass
> the information to the printer. This only seems to happen with custom
> paper sizes and not with the predefined sizes. I'm not sure where
> the
> problem is. QTR, Gimp-Print or Ghost? Has anyone else encountered
> this and have you solved it.
>
>                               John H

John,

If you are using a Mac and OS X try opening your final image file in 
Preview and printing from there using the custom paper size function in 
the settings window of page setup.

My guess since Preview is a unix based program it can pass the settings 
to gimp-print.  If you problem is trying to print custom sizes from PS 
7 the problem (again my guess) is that PS 7 was a carbonized version of 
PS 7 for Mac's OS 9 version and not all the unix functions are properly 
translated.

Hopefully, the next upgrad of PS will fix this problem.

David

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I can confirm that with PS 7.0 and OSX 10.2.6 and QTR + GIMP there 
seems to be no way to print custom page sizes EXCEPT via the Preview 
application -- problem with Preview is that it won't center the image 
the same way PS7 does, so you basically have to save the image as 
JPEG with the white border you want and then open it in Preview and 
then print. Pain in the ass, but it works.

I was also told that it might be because I installed another 
shareware app but I haven't investigated it further.

mjs


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David M. Dorn" 
<dmdorn_ct_usa@m...> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 06:49  PM, Mr_Misty_44 wrote:
> 
> > I am using QuadTone RIP and ran into a strange problem. I'm
> > printing
> > with a 7500 and have been printing using the defined paper sizes 
in
> > the program. I just tried to print an image on a 17X22 piece of
> > paper. This size is not defined. I went to CUSTOM and set this 
size
> > up. I then proceeded to try and print but the program will not 
pass
> > the information to the printer. This only seems to happen with 
custom
> > paper sizes and not with the predefined sizes. I'm not sure where
> > the
> > problem is. QTR, Gimp-Print or Ghost? Has anyone else encountered
> > this and have you solved it.
> >
> >                               John H
> 
> John,
> 
> If you are using a Mac and OS X try opening your final image file 
in 
> Preview and printing from there using the custom paper size 
function in 
> the settings window of page setup.
> 
> My guess since Preview is a unix based program it can pass the 
settings 
> to gimp-print.  If you problem is trying to print custom sizes from 
PS 
> 7 the problem (again my guess) is that PS 7 was a carbonized 
version of 
> PS 7 for Mac's OS 9 version and not all the unix functions are 
properly 

> translated.
> 
> Hopefully, the next upgrad of PS will fix this problem.
> 
> David
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]