Lightroom 4 and Epson 7900 Printing Tutorials

At time I am struggling with paper sizes in LR4, the printer driver, user defined settings etc.

Is there a tutorial somewhere using Win 7 that deals with these issues?

Maybe start with this one then follow up by asking specific questions here. Lots of us use LR with Epson printers and can help you get up and running

http://tv.adobe.com …-print-the-perfect-image/

One key thing is that you should let LR manage colors by selecting the profile for your paper under Color Management, and go into your printer driver and turn ICM OFF. For my R3000 Epson call this drop-down selection "Mode".

Here are some screen captures of how I have things set up in LR for my 8 1/2 x 11 borderless preset using Epson Premium Glossy paper:

And what I have for my printer driver:

Thanks folks what I have a problem with is roll paper on the 7900, the rolls are 24 in width. Lets say I want to create a 20" x 30" print in portrait orientation with a white border. This size is custom from what I can see.

I select the roll paper option but what do I select for size, which I would assume I would need to create a 20" x 30" user defined and select that, see attached what I think it should look like.

But then add in Lightroom I cannot set the size to an exact 20 x30, so I am bit confused on this...

I think you may need to tick the borderless tick box in the print driver, otherwise you will not be able to get LR to set the picture box up to the full size of the paper, as it will automatically try to allow for the printers default margins. It is one I bumped into as well but with a Canon printer. I have to use a PDF printer driver to do "custom" sizes larger than A4 as my Canon printer is A4 only. I like to use the Print module for the images that I send out to the Lab, I tend to add a 5mm/0.2" border around my full bleed 16×12 prints so I do not loose edges of images. They usually end up at around 3mm wide.

Alan

I clicked on Borderless but in LR4 I still can't get that size?

To get the cell to fill the page then you also need to set the margins to zero in LR. In that screen shot you have 0.12" margins top and bottom, as well as 0.11" left and 0.12" right margins. LR picks the margin settings up from the print driver, but they need to be removed in LR as well.

Alan

Ok I tried that too see below

Can you not now slide the width slider all the way to the end? Another question have you got the image cropped to a 5×4 ratio? Also is it the right way round? I usually keep rotate to fit checked in LR otherwise it has a habit of screwing up fitting landscape/portrait images on the paper. LR is quite "strict" about fitting the image into the image cell. It would be useful to see the whole of the screen, not just the toolbars.

Alan

This is about as close as I can get it, not much of a border top and bottom though, may be I should create a used defined size of 21 x 30?

I've never understood LR's print settings either. I've wasted 10x more paper trying to get what I want than I've actually printed correctly. I usually wind up using other programs to print it correctly the 1st time. Though I'll follow along, maybe I'll learn something.

I was hoping there would be a tutorial somewhere than delves into these rules that LR uses when we print different sizes whether they be standard sizes or custom sizes.

Chet wrote in post #15823385
I've never understood LR's print settings either. I've wasted 10x more paper trying to get what I want than I've actually printed correctly. I usually wind up using other programs to print it correctly the 1st time. Though I'll follow along, maybe I'll learn something.

They don't seem to be really intuitive do they.

Once I was comfortable with how to make them work I made a bunch of presets for different paper types, size, border width, etc. Now I just click on the preset I want and both LR and my print driver update to the proper configuration.

I print all non standard and large sized photos in photoshop. I only print dinky sized photos in LR (8.5x11 and smaller). It's just easier to control everything in photoshop IMO and I'm too old to learn new things. I don't know what goes on behind the scenes in LR during the print prep process so I prefer PS cause I know exactly what I'm getting

I have a 13X19 printer that I've tried numerous times using standard and custom template/presets to print borderless and have failed. The paper costs a fortune to waste and it wastes lots of in before it gets far enough thru the printer to notice. I wind up printing with Paintshop Pro what I see is what I get every time. Very frustrating to try in Lightroom no matter how successfulmand confident I feel I am with the settings. I'm using LR4.