print preview not WYSIWYG?
In printing an image I apparently had resolution set at 360 dpi for a full Nikon D700 file on letter size paper. This resulted in only a portion of the image fitting on the sheet. I eventually discovered a fix for this by changing the resolution to Auto. Two questions: 1) if the print preview is WYSIWYG, why didn't it show me I was only going to get part of the file? And 2) this seems to be one of many issues where there is not enough depth in the user manual (nor in the video tuts) to find my own answer. Is a comprehensive user manual a thing of the past?
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In the past with other applications I have seen entirely unmanageable results from the drivers of a particular printer to the point where getting anything the right size in the right place seemed to be purely a matter of luck. I eventually worked out that scaling activity the printer driver undertook seemed to be the primary (but not only) problem area. Somewhere the way it interfaced with the screens in the other application was problematic.
The same printer using Capture One works well. When I occasionally get unexpected results - usually at the point of preview - the error is inevitably mine once I look into it.
In effect for direct print output you are in the hands of the OS supplier, the printer driver supplier, any other intermediary software you may be using and, finally, the edit application you are using.
It may not be viable trying to write detailed documentation to cover all of the variables although perhaps recently printer technology seems to have reached a plateau so the task may be a little more doable and have longer validity than in the past.
It might be worth putting a suggestion to the C1 team via a support case although I suspect a video presentation supported by some notes about specific issues may be the more useful way to go.
HTH.
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Thanks for your thoughts, Grant. Maybe I'm asking for too much, but it seems like the print preview is supposed to show what you will get - and I've seen it's not always the case. I'm using the very popular Epson 3880. To me, if I've set the resolution incorrectly, it should show me the partial image. Also, current tutorials fall short in telling one that resolution should be set - but not HOW it should be set. Or at least a warning that fixed resolutions may lead to unpredictable outcomes. 0 -
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Thanks for your thoughts, Grant. Maybe I'm asking for too much, but it seems like the print preview is supposed to show what you will get - and I've seen it's not always the case. I'm using the very popular Epson 3880. To me, if I've set the resolution incorrectly, it should show me the partial image. Also, current tutorials fall short in telling one that resolution should be set - but not HOW it should be set. Or at least a warning that fixed resolutions may lead to unpredictable outcomes.
Up to a point you are right of course but then if, for example, you have chose (or the system thinks you have chosen) to print the image "full size" but using a paper size that implies you will need more than one sheet of paper (unless you are using a roll of paper) then what should the preview show you? How complicated might that get?
Much to my surprise when I was investigating my (non-Epson) printing problems with the other software I stumbled across many posts and not a few major photography web site articles describing problems that people were having with Epson Printers every time Apple released a new OS update. That was a few years ago and seemed to only seriously affect Epson for some reason. These days it seems people are still reporting problems (I just ran a quick search) but the number of such reports may be much reduced.
It seems that printer driver compatibility with new OS releases has been a significant problem from time to time so it is well worth ensuring that you have checked that all is well there no matter where the problem appears.
Meanwhile with my (non-Epson) printer I see two repesesntations of what will be printed when using it with C1.
Going through the C1 printing options I see the presentation according to the media size I select there in Template and Layouts but Initiated but what has previously been set in Printer Settings that, when selected, branches out to the printer selection and Printer Driver UI to obtain the defaults or set new values. At that point C1 presents its internal "How it should look" screen for page design purposes. It assumes that it is getting the correct information about media size and so on relying on the printer software to warn about whether the printer can satisfy the request.
The driver for my printer also have a "Print Preview?" check box of its own. I always tick that so I can see what the printer thinks it will be presenting, albeit in a rough form, as a double check for what I have set. However it presents the results as it will provide them at the given media size which is NOT NECESSARILY the same size as it actually in the printer's selected media feed. So, as printed, if I have undersized media in the feed compared to the the media size I am telling it to print to the first I would know about it is when I see a partial print.
I suspect that your "Auto" setting is the printer driver offering an option to let you select any image (more or less) and then re-scale it using its own software to fit the media in the feed. This may allow both downward scaling (obviously possible but with some potential for absolute print quality anomaly from the compression) and upscaling (often available up to about 200% but may produce odd results from some source files).
Obviously I am guessing here but it seems likely given the way these things seem to work.
My apologies if you are way ahead of all of this in your investigation but from what you have mentioned so far it's a bit difficult to be certain about the situation and rather than bounce questions backwards and forwards I thought I would write these thoughts and see where that might take the discussion. If they don't fit with your real Epson world experiences we may need to look at some screen shots of the process you use to help identify where the anomalies appear. It may also be interesting to know whether the same sort of issues exist with the 3880 on Windows if it turns out to be a consistent problem amongst Mac users.
HTH.
Grant0
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