Digital BW, The Print

Hello Stephen;

After putting in a little time with the 2+ versions of your GUI, I 
find myself wishing for a couple changes I hope you will consider.
The first one has to do with the name of the currently loaded preset-
it goes away when the spooling is finished, so by the time you're 
done printing an image, you have to remember which preset is loaded. 
Not a big deal 10 minutes down the road, but since the program now 
retains print settings between uses, it would be nice if it also 
retained the name of those settings as well. 
 The other is more a feature request, and probably a lot more 
difficult, but I'll ask anyway, & you tell me if you're willing to 
go there: For those of us who use roll paper in particular, it would 
be great if we could position and print more than one image on a 
given size of paper. As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting and 
printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 

Thanks for considering these, and thank for all the hard work you 
and Roy have put into QTR/GUI.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting and 
> printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 

It would indeed be nice to be able to place more than one image in 
the output area, but it's easy to use Photoshop to create a big 
canvas and drag two or more images onto it, thereby achieving a 
similar effect.

John

Many users of this forum have Qimage and routinely place one or more 
pictures (same or different size) on one "canvas", print to file in 
Qimage and then use QTR/QTRGui to get it on paper.
Cheers, Esa
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Houghton" 
<j.houghton@n...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> > strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting 
and 

> > printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 
> 
> It would indeed be nice to be able to place more than one image in 
> the output area, but it's easy to use Photoshop to create a big 
> canvas and drag two or more images onto it, thereby achieving a 
> similar effect.
> 
> John

Yes, it's a real clunker of a procedure, isn't it?

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "esasinkkonen" 
<esa.sinkkonen@1...> wrote:
> 
> Many users of this forum have Qimage and routinely place one or 
more 
> pictures (same or different size) on one "canvas", print to file 
in 
> Qimage and then use QTR/QTRGui to get it on paper.
> Cheers, Esa
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John 
Houghton" 
> <j.houghton@n...> wrote:
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> > Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > > As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> > > strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting 
> and 
> > > printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 
> > 
> > It would indeed be nice to be able to place more than one image 
in 

> > the output area, but it's easy to use Photoshop to create a big 
> > canvas and drag two or more images onto it, thereby achieving a 
> > similar effect.
> > 
> > John

I realize there are workarounds for this as with everything else in 
this world...It's just slower and more awkward.

Steve K

-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Houghton" 
<j.houghton@n...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> > strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting 
and 

> > printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 
> 
> It would indeed be nice to be able to place more than one image in 
> the output area, but it's easy to use Photoshop to create a big 
> canvas and drag two or more images onto it, thereby achieving a 
> similar effect.
> 
> John

The bit with the Preset Name going away has to do with changing margins or
such. I am changing it so that the only thing that will make the name go
away is changing ink type settings.

As for multiple prints per page, That change would require QuadToneRIP and
QTRgui to both change. It would be a pretty extensive change. Have you
investigated Qimage? (www.ddisoftware.com) Most people with a need for page
management on the PC use Qimage. It really does not make since to try to
duplicate its features since you can easily co-ordinate Qimage and QTRgui.
Just set QTRgui to monitor a folder and Qimage to print to a file in that
monitored folder.

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Karafyllakis [mailto:steve@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:09 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] For Stephen Billiard-Behavior 
> mod/feature requests for QTR/GUI
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Stephen;
> 
> After putting in a little time with the 2+ versions of your GUI, I 
> find myself wishing for a couple changes I hope you will 
> consider. The first one has to do with the name of the 
> currently loaded preset- it goes away when the spooling is 
> finished, so by the time you're 
> done printing an image, you have to remember which preset is loaded. 
> Not a big deal 10 minutes down the road, but since the program now 
> retains print settings between uses, it would be nice if it also 
> retained the name of those settings as well. 
>  The other is more a feature request, and probably a lot more 
> difficult, but I'll ask anyway, & you tell me if you're willing to 
> go there: For those of us who use roll paper in particular, it would 
> be great if we could position and print more than one image on a 
> given size of paper. As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting and 
> printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 
> 
> Thanks for considering these, and thank for all the hard work you 
> and Roy have put into QTR/GUI.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
>

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen 
Billard" <stephen@s...> wrote:
> The bit with the Preset Name going away has to do with changing 
margins or
> such. I am changing it so that the only thing that will make the 
name go
> away is changing ink type settings.

Thanks, that will help a lot!
> 
> As for multiple prints per page, That change would require 
QuadToneRIP and
> QTRgui to both change. It would be a pretty extensive change.

I had a feeling it would mean major changes-thought I'd ask anyway. 
Have you
> investigated Qimage? (www.ddisoftware.com) Most people with a need 
for page
> management on the PC use Qimage. 

I currently own and use Qimage, but haven't been able to make 
the 'print-to-file' work for me yet-I'll try again, perhaps with a 
different incantation this time?

Thanks

Steve Karafyllakis

> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Karafyllakis [mailto:steve@s...] 
> > Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:09 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Digital BW] For Stephen Billiard-Behavior 
> > mod/feature requests for QTR/GUI
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Stephen;
> > 
> > After putting in a little time with the 2+ versions of your GUI, 
I 
> > find myself wishing for a couple changes I hope you will 
> > consider. The first one has to do with the name of the 
> > currently loaded preset- it goes away when the spooling is 
> > finished, so by the time you're 
> > done printing an image, you have to remember which preset is 
loaded. 
> > Not a big deal 10 minutes down the road, but since the program 
now 
> > retains print settings between uses, it would be nice if it also 
> > retained the name of those settings as well. 
> >  The other is more a feature request, and probably a lot more 
> > difficult, but I'll ask anyway, & you tell me if you're willing 
to 
> > go there: For those of us who use roll paper in particular, it 
would 
> > be great if we could position and print more than one image on a 
> > given size of paper. As it stands, I find myself cutting 24x14 
> > strips off the roll to print two 11x14s, for instance. Cutting 
and 
> > printing heavily curled roll paper is no picnic. 
> > 
> > Thanks for considering these, and thank for all the hard work 
you 

> > and Roy have put into QTR/GUI.
> > 
> > Steve Karafyllakis
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> >