New to printing - help a newbie please. :)

Hey all, I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Day!

Well, I’ve finally jumped into something I’ve been wanted to do for the past few months but now find myself in much more confusion than I anticipated with this. For Christmas I got myself an Epson r2400 photo printer, and I’m really impressed at the job it’s been doing thus far. But, now I’m confused on how to handle the various print dimensions that are available with the r2400. I’ve taken most of my images with the camera (20D) held upright, this is shown in Adobe CS2 as a pixel size of 3504 x 2336, or as 14.6” wide x 9.73” high. How can I do 8” x 10” or 8.5” x 11” prints from 20D’s image layout (much wider than high)? This also makes me think of another question – since the r2400 can print sizes various sizes over 8.5” x 11”, like 11” x 14” or 13” x 19”, and CS2 is showing my largest file size as 14.6” x 9.73”, how are the larger prints done using the 20D cr2 images??

In other words, how can I easily handle my images to print in the dimensions I desire? Is this manipulated within Adobe CS2 or the printer setup? Or I'm I out of luck when it comes to 8x10s for all of my saved images that were shot w/camera upright? Anyway, I’ve messed around with it a few different ways, from rotating my image 90 degrees (in CS2) to use most of my 8.5” x 11” photo paper, to trying things in the printer properties setup.

I hope these are common things that people run into with easy solutions available. =) Any help for this print newbie would be greatly appreciated!

There is a resize option. Have you tried that in your printer control?

SuzyView

William, the easiest way to scale your image is to use the "scale print size" dialogue under the print with preview" option. (FILE > PRINT WITH PREVIEW). Your camera makes images with a 3:2 aspect ratio, meaning you can make prints 2" X 3", 4" X 6", 8" X 12", 16" X 24" , etc. without any cropping. To print 4" X 5", 8" X 10" etc., you will have to crop the image before printing. If you need help with the crop tool, let us know. There have been several recent threads on cropping, so you might try a search first.

Thanks Bodog. This is what I was suspecting and have already cropped one picture, using the CS2 ruler, to make 5x7s. I was curious if this was the "norm" or if there were better options available. (I've been using the print with preview option also, very helpful)

Thanks for the help.

Get Qimage for printing. That program will look after your cropping and resampling without making any alterations to your original file.

nice printer!

Thanks.

So anyone else? Is Qimage widely used around here?

Any other 20D + r2400 users to offer any tips?

Thanks
William

I think quite a few use Qimage here. It does an excellent job, especially if re-sizing is necessary. I wouldn't recommend it for ease of use though. The interface is "unique." I believe it has a 30 day free trial though, and the price is certainly reasonable.
http://www.ddisoftware​.com/qimage/

I agree with Bodog, Qimage is great for re-sizing. Whether your actual file is small or large, whatever size you want to print it, Qimage will do the best possible job.

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