Digital BW, The Print

Hi all,

I am trying to print some long art works on an Epson 2200 using QTR (ver 2.2.1)

After getting over some initial troubles with QTR I can now print in a nice controlled manner, YEAH!  Problem is that now I can't seem to get it to print a print sized 13 by 56 inches.  I've set up a user defined print size of that in the Epson driver (without either QTR or PhotoShop running).  But that user defined size does not show up in the list on QTR ???  The largest is a 13 by 44.  When I try to put the above value into "custom size" it accepts it and then as soon as you try to load a file, it switches it to 13 by 44.

I've checked the help file (nothing on that issue that I can find) and I tried to search here ... probably there are a few threads on this but it was hard to figure out a "word" to search on that didn't bring up thousands (such as "large print").

Any ideas on how to get to this long size ?  Or more specifically how to get a size loaded into QTR's database of defined sizes.

System:  Pent 3, 550MHz, 512 RAM, WinXP pro, Epson 2200 printer 

Thanks for any and all help!

David

Ok, found the solution. It turns out that there is a configuration file for
each selected printer (*.ppd, find in subdir of same name). That file is a text
file which contains config info that QTR uses. You have to edit this file to
change the paper sizes given in the menus in the gui. Watch out there are
several areas where you have to edit (just follow down the list and it is
obvious). Copy the syntax of the existing lines exactly. The values are inches
* 72, if you are working in inches... Be careful of the "printable area" it is
smaller than the pages size. I am not sure of the ultimate limit for this
printer under WinXP, I'm guessing it to be 129 inches.

The only strange bit is that after correctly printing the image the printer sent out about 2 ft of paper and turned on the dreaded blinking red light (time to reload paper .. roll paper can be a hassle in a 2200).

David

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "davidtrawick1" <david-trawick@u...> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to print some long art works on an Epson 2200 using QTR (ver 2.2.1)
> 
> After getting over some initial troubles with QTR I can now print in a nice controlled manner, YEAH!  Problem is that now I can't seem to get it to print a print sized 13 by 56 inches.  I've set up a user defined print size of that in the Epson driver (without either QTR or PhotoShop running).  But that user defined size does not show up in the list on QTR ???  The largest is a 13 by 44.  When I try to put the above value into "custom size" it accepts it and then as soon as you try to load a file, it switches it to 13 by 44.
> 
> I've checked the help file (nothing on that issue that I can find) and I tried to search here ... probably there are a few threads on this but it was hard to figure out a "word" to search on that didn't bring up thousands (such as "large print").
> 
> Any ideas on how to get to this long size ?  Or more specifically how to get a size loaded into QTR's database of defined sizes.
> 
> System:  Pent 3, 550MHz, 512 RAM, WinXP pro, Epson 2200 printer 
> 
> Thanks for any and all help!
> 
> David