QTR-Quadtone RIP

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "andrew" <andrew@a...> wrote:
> I've been using QuadTone for a while now. I'm running OS 10.3.9.
> Recently, I updated the installation to 2.2. I'd always used the 2100
> connected as a Windows printer, but the new installation demanded that
> it be there as a USB printer. I connected it directly to the Mac but I
> had a lot of hassles getting the installation to see the printer. It
> kept showing up under USB printers but it was not able to be selected
> and had a message saying "driver not installed". I installed the Epson
> driver but that of course didn't work. What finally did the trick was
> reinstalling the CUPS 4.2.7 drivers, which were somehow absent, from
> the OS 10.3 disks. Finally, it worked. But not perfectly. I have 2
> main issues:
> 
> Issue 1. The handy custom centred paper sizes have disappeared from
> the print dialog. However, the default paper sizes now have 3.2mm
> borders and are centred. This would OK except for the fact that the
> 2100 has a bottom/right margin of ~14mm.
> 
> Issue 2. Related to that, the printer is physically losing grip on the
> paper (Hahnemuhle Photo Rag) for the last few mm of what should be
> printable area, thus ruining the print. I printed an image on A5
> landscape (210mm x 148mm), sized to 175mm wide, which left 17.5mm
> either end. It still happened. I then printed a larger image from a
> Windows machine using the Epson driver and all was fine.
> 
> Could the the native Epson drivers be inteferring with the CUPS /
> QuadTone installation? Any and all thoughts or help will be gratefully
> received.
> 
> andrew

Hi Andrew,

I haven't used the Windows printer option so I'm not sure how you set
that up in the past.  But 2.2 ought to be able to do the same thing.
The Install2100 script assumes a printer name Quad2100 and will use
an existing connection.  If Quad2100 doesn't exist then yes it tries the
usb interface.  

From what I've deciphered from Epson info, the desktop printers have exit
rollers so they can print close to the end of the paper -- sometimes with
a reduced quality.  So the centering is simplified if the margins are all the
same, but for best quality one should leave white space around the image.
I'm not sure I understand your Photo Rag example -- if you left 17.5mm 
bottom margin wasn't that enough to finish the printing before the roller
lost grip?

Roy