QTR-Quadtone RIP

Roy,
What does Scale to fit mean? In the QTR dialoge box there is the box labled SCALE which you can check "To fit" or you can input a %. Then there is the box labled PLACEMENT which you can chose CENTERED or input a dimension for top and left.
What I'm trying to do is gang 4 of the same image onto a 17 x 22 sheet so that when I cut the sheet I will get (4) 8.5 x 11 sheets, each with the same image with an equal boarder around each image. The image is 6.694 x 8.964 which(on an 8.5 x 11) would leave a boarder of .903 on the L & R sides and 1.018 on the T & B.
The printable area on a 17 x 22 sheet from an Epson 4800 is 16.75 x 21.32
I have been trying to place the image within the 8.5 x 11 page so that when it is placed on the 17 x 22 I'm getting various size boarders. I'm trying to take into account the "printable area" of the 17/22 but I keep getting the wrong boarder. Thats whay I ask about the "Scale to Fit" vs % and or Centered  or input a dimension.         

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Roy Harrington <roy@...> wrote:
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> You don't say what you actually get so its hard to figure out what the
> exact issue is.
> But I suspect you are not taking into account the borders that the
> printer itself and
> therefore QTR imposes. (QTR does not support borderless printing).
> But I'll guess you are printing to a 3800/3880 printer.  This has a
> 1/8 inch border
> around all sides.  So the max image that can be printed on 17x22 paper
> is actually
> 16.75x21.75 -- this is the size "image"(canvas) you ought to be creating.
> And you have to remember there's an extra 1/8 inch all around when positioning.
> (alternatively you could make a (6+6+1.25+1.25) = 14.5 width image and
> center it).
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> Roy
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> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Keith <kjrslr@...> wrote:
> > That's what I've done. I took one image and placed it with even boarders onto an 8.5 x 11 new "canvas". I then created a new 17 x 22 "canvas". I then dragged the 8.5 x 11 canvas onto the 17 x 22 canvas(they simply snap to the corners). I then flatten the 17 x 22 and saved it as a tiff(to use in QTR). When I make a print, they no longer have even boarders.
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> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "shileshjani" <shileshjani@> wrote:
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> >> Keith,
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> >> You will have to create/save the 4 set ganged print in another application like Photoshop. And then print that file in QTR.
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> >> Good luck.
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> >> Shilesh
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> >> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Keith" <kjrslr@> wrote:
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> >> > Okay, I've been spoiled by printing out of Lightroom and have been trying to do the same printing out of QTR. Being on Win 7-64, I am not able to access QTR through Lightroom. This has been discussed before so I won't. Which means that I have to print out of QTR. My problem is printing 4(of the same)images on a single sheet and have the same boarder all the way around each image. In LR I could set my cell size to 8.5 x 11 and 4 would be printed on a 17 x 22 sheet. For example an image is 6 x 8.75. The boarder on either side of the 6 inch side is 1.25 and 1.125 on either side of the 8.75. In LR, no problem, but through QTR is there a way to get the same result?
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