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How to print borderless to Epson roll paper System
To get borderless roll paper printing working under OS X (at least for Epson 785 EPX), this is the way.

First of all, you must have the Gimp-Print drivers for your printer installed. Then using Portraits & Prints from econtechnologies and their Template Maker software, create a template for 4x6 paper and make a photo box to fill up the entire template. Import this template into Portraits & Prints and simply choose this as the layout when printing.

Borderless roll paper printing has been working fine for me and the output is great. The only problems I have noticed come when printing a lot of pictures at the same time (23 of them). Up to nine pictures at once seems to work fine. Also, after one print job has started, do not submit another one because the first one will mysteriously stop.

[Editor's note: I have not tried this one myself...]
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page size
Authored by: Franco on Jan 31, '03 11:25:30AM

One curiosity... since I'm evaluating to buy a printer with paper roll capabilities: is there a limit in the length of the page that can be printed for a single picture?

thx



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page size
Authored by: Heath Pitts on Jan 31, '03 11:56:03AM

As of now the only paper size i could select was 4x6 and get it to work. I will try this weekend and see if that is the case or not.


Heath Pitts



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Printing extra long pictures on roll paper
Authored by: greencj on Jan 31, '03 01:33:55PM

I have an Epson 1280 and am running OS X 10.2.3

After lots of teething trouble with the printer (many features missing in the Epson OSX driver, bad USB cable) I installed the latest gimp print drivers for OS X and changed the USB cable to a shorter one from a recognized manufacturer. Now I'm in business and have been experimenting for the last couple of days.

I have been able to print edge to edge up to 4" x 36" @ 720 dpi on roll paper (I'm a sucker for wide panoramas). I learnt a couple of tricks along the way:

Install the latest gimp print drivers
Select Page Setup in the application you want to print from
Create a custom paper size - in my case 4" x 36" - and name it.
Set all the margins to zero - this will give you edge to edge printing
Hit the save button in the dialogue
Select 'Any printer' from the pop-up menu in the page setup dialogue
Select the custom paper size you have created
Click OK.
Select print in your application and adjust the driver settings as required (paper type, source, print resolution).

Couple of problems I encountered along the way:

I tried printing a 4 x 36 from Adobe Photoshop elements and it only printed a small section before stopping and spitting 3ft of blank paper at me. My work around was to save the file in TIFF format and print it from the Preview application (worked fine)

Don't send another print job whilst one is already printing - the second job won't print (anyone else have this happen?). I'm still trying to find a workaround for this rather irritating problem

I would love to be able to print multiple pictures onto roll paper one after another without any space in between (less cutting out afterwards). Epson Film Factory allows you to do this but will not run in classic mode under OSX 10.2.3 I haven't found any other software that can do this (yet).



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Printing extra long pictures on roll paper
Authored by: Heath Pitts on Jan 31, '03 04:48:18PM

Cool I will try this when I get home. The portraits & Prints program lets me add multiple pictures and print them back to back. Then I send another job to the printer and it starts printing where it left off. I do have the problem of sending two jobs and the printing getting messed up also.


Heath Pitts



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unrolling the paper
Authored by: kyrrigle on Jan 31, '03 01:06:15PM

I have been less than pleased with the results of printing from a
roll (on an Epson 785EPX)... It has jammed more than once, and
getting the curve out of the pictures has been quite a challenge.

So far I've had best results printing at least a few photos at a time
and then, before cutting, rolling them backwards onto a rolling
pin... but still they have a curve... probably if i left them for longer...



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unrolling the paper
Authored by: greencj on Jan 31, '03 01:36:34PM

I let them dry for an hour then press between a couple of sheets of paper with a weight on top. Takes about a day to take most of the curl out.



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