QImage centering question

[armand]

Anybody has issues when printing from QImage with the position of the print?
I don't recall having issues in the past but when I recently start to print on my Epson R1900 on 13x19 paper the image it's definitely not centered. After measuring the print and verifying the values it looks like the math from it it's wrong sometimes and when it's right it behaves the same.
Example: long edge of the image of 430 mm, long edge of the paper is 483. I saw some calculated borders initially of 25 + 26 mm (off by 2 mm) but even when it shows 26.6 + 26.6 mm on the actual print the borders are 25 mm + 28 mm. I tried both centered and optimally spaced settings.
Didn't test it on the 3880 (printing some canvas now where the border it's not that critical and I don't want to switch the blacks just for testing).
Any ideas ?

Thanks,
Armand

[Ernst Dinkla]

There is an excellent Qimage forum for that kind of questions (link on ddisoftware.com).

You may have set some arbitrary print margins figures in Qimage's preferences. There you can switch to minimal print margins or compensate them with additional numbers to get a symmetric output on sheets.

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[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Anybody has issues when printing from QImage with the position of the print?
I don't recall having issues in the past but when I recently start to print on my Epson R1900 on 13x19 paper the image it's definitely not centered.

Hi Armand,

Centering is very easy and accurate in Qimage Ultimate, despite the limitations of the printer's actual printable area and of the driver settings (which may offer different printable areas for different papersettings). You do not even have to make a single test print.

Here is a video that explains it all.

Cheers,
Bart

[armand]

Hi Armand,

Centering is very easy and accurate in Qimage Ultimate, despite the limitations of the printer's actual printable area and of the driver settings (which may offer different printable areas for different papersettings). You do not even have to make a single test print.

Here is a video that explains it all.

Cheers,
Bart

Thank you, the video was helpful as although was not talking exactly about my problem it did give me the answer. I had the print set with borders in the printer driver which was taking away 5 mm out of the total printable space despite the margins being 26 mm to start with. When set to borderless it fixed the sizing issue.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Thank you, the video was helpful as although was not talking exactly about my problem it did give me the answer. I had the print set with borders in the printer driver which was taking away 5 mm out of the total printable space despite the margins being 26 mm to start with. When set to borderless it fixed the sizing issue.

Good to hear that your issue was solved. Qimage interrogates the printer driver, and will report the actual area that will be printable. So physical centering will be relatively easy to manage (the numbers will tell what will happen), despite the asymmetries in the physical printable area.

Cheers,
Bart