So a nice conversation with Mark today, and I think we can both agree that even with bit of an unknown cloud over the problem, there is some understanding that the Qimage software can get stuck in a Fit to Page or Fit to Print definition regardless of changing that setting, even if you change to custom and define the size, it reverts to the preset before (Win7x64).
This may have been the cause of why my print was not complete. It finished the GEnhance over the whole page.
Hard to explain why the printer did this pause dance(at 54seconds left to finish the print) over the service station also, but, I hope I can be more aware, and if possible prevent from happening again. Also the countdown from 54 didn't resume to count. It just continued to print. I think it resumed with just printing the GE, so this I'm not too sure of, but I know it was odd to see no fade in ink when it was paused, which suggests that it had completed, and this was more of a Qimage issue. That's what I'm concluding.
Mark, when this happened to you, was it always via Qimage? I forgot to ask you that.