Print on Roll Paper

Are you selecting roll paper in the print dialog?

You;re putting in 24 when I set the dimension to 36 it put 24 in the other box. Have you tried it that way?

Just tried this set roll paper 24 inch then in image size I chose custom for size and set ti to 36 x 24 and it reset the paper size to 36 x 24

With the above setting it says the print size is 24x36

Glad you got the print to work. At those prices ....

So was the final resolution setting both the paper type to roll setting the physical dimension of the roll there and then setting the custom size also?

regards

I'm trying to print on a roll paper with my Epson R2400 and I Aperture won't let me use the full width of my 13" roll.

I've got a little yellow caution sign on the upper right corner of the image:

My print paramter are:

Paper size: Roll

Orientation: Landscape

Image Size: Maximum to fit

No Margin

If I hit the print button, then I've got an error message from the printer driver saying basically that the paper use is no in l ine with the print parameters.

I double checked my roller and the paper in the printer, everything seems OK, the printer loaded the paper fine.

If I reduce the width of my print tu 29cm then the image is printed but it's not in the middle on the page and I've got a huge margin on one side.

Any thought ?

Thanks

I use the following technique, which works consistently:

1) Specify the Paper Size as Custom rather than Roll, giving the Width (first spec) as the actual roll paper width (ie. 44 inches), and the Length (second spec) as the height (or width) of the paper cut you want. [This avoids ambiguities about where the paper is going to be cut, and assures the image is centered on the paper.]

2) Specifiy the image size exactly as you want it, always specifying the Width (first spec) as the side of the image you want to run across the paper (therefore, it is always shorter than the actual width of the paper roll).

The next two steps are taken on the menu that appears when you hit the Print Button, by clicking the Layout Button and proceeding as follows:

3) Within Printer Settings, select Roll Paper (avoid Roll - Banner because it does not allow automatic rotation of the image).

4) Within Roll Paper Settings, select Auto Rotate under Auto Cut Settings. Note that the width of your paper roll will appear in the box to the right. This will confirm that you set the proper roll width in Step 1 above. (Remember, you must first set Roll Paper in step 3 above, before it will let you specifiy Auto Rotate.)

Done!

TomGiske is smack on correct — after wasting a better part of the day not being able to print the exact sized prints on very specific roll paper while printing on my Canon iPF9100 through Aperture, I followed exactly what Tom wrote and bygolly it worked perfectly. Thank you, Tom, for humanizing and otherwise unhuman process. Best, John

Hi Tom, I did that a few days ago and I though I was on the right way, so I printed two copies of a photo, but one by one. I specified a custom size paper with 17 inch wide and 13 inch height. Within that papersize I set my image size to 16 by 12 inch and printed. The paper came out of my Epson 11880 rotated and the size was perfect, but o wonder, the image was not correct: The first image was only 15.5 inch wide, the second printed with the same settings was 16.5 inch wide, the height scaled proportionally in both cases.

I do not have any trouble printing as you wrote from a book layout from Aperture, because that doesn't use the stupid Aperture print dialog.

For my images, I had them to export, scale them in Photoshop to the wanted dimensions and printed them with Preview – what a wonderful long workflow.

Beside: I use Aperture 3.3.2 with OS Lion 10.7.4

Hello everybody

I am facing the same problem. I wasted already a lot of squaremeters on my HP Z3100 😠

The printing results of Aperture 3.4 in terms of picture size is not predictable.

I will try to use Tom Giskes settings and see if it will work. But I guess I will have the same problems like ajgw.