Epson 890 Panorama problem

[ThievingScouser]

Hiya,
I'm hoping the good people here can help me out with this problem, I have no
idea how to fix it.

I've had my Epson Photo 890 for a while and never had a problem printing off
panoramic prints before but this one is behaving very strangly.
I have a picture I took a few years ago when in Australia and as I'm going
back on Monday thought it would be great to print the picture out for some
relatives there that would love it I'm sure.

The image is 23,861 x 2,362, which at 300 dpi should give me a 202 x 20cm
picture.
You can see a small(ish) version of the pic here
http://www.thievingscouser.co.uk/panorama3_web.jpg

I setup a user defined paper type in the printer setup to use a roll of
width: 2100 and height: 22000
I get this very strange result;
http://www.thievingscouser.co.uk/panorama3_print_screenshot.jpg

The print preview is showing exactly what it tries to print out. The picture
has been shrunk to approximately half size and it starts the print about
halfway along the image.

I've tried lowering the resolution thinking I could be hitting an data
transfer limit, no luck. I tried making the height the maximum it would go,
this had the effect of starting the print a little further along the image,
but it was still way off and still shrunk.

Has anyone encountered this before? Or does anyone have any theories/tips
they think could solve this?
It's got me stumped, and my fiancees grandparents would love this picture as
they don't get out much anymore and with scenery like this on their doorstep
it's a shame to miss out.

Hoping someone out there can help.

Thanks,
Ed

 

[Ed Ruf]

Hiya,
I'm hoping the good people here can help me out with this problem, I have no
idea how to fix it.

I've had my Epson Photo 890 for a while and never had a problem printing off
panoramic prints before but this one is behaving very strangly.
I have a picture I took a few years ago when in Australia and as I'm going
back on Monday thought it would be great to print the picture out for some
relatives there that would love it I'm sure.

The image is 23,861 x 2,362, which at 300 dpi should give me a 202 x 20cm
picture.
You can see a small(ish) version of the pic here
http://www.thievingscouser.co.uk/panorama3_web.jpg

I setup a user defined paper type in the printer setup to use a roll of
width: 2100 and height: 22000
I get this very strange result;
http://www.thievingscouser.co.uk/panorama3_print_screenshot.jpg

The print preview is showing exactly what it tries to print out. The picture
has been shrunk to approximately half size and it starts the print about
halfway along the image.

I've tried lowering the resolution thinking I could be hitting an data
transfer limit, no luck. I tried making the height the maximum it would go,
this had the effect of starting the print a little further along the image,
but it was still way off and still shrunk.

Has anyone encountered this before? Or does anyone have any theories/tips
they think could solve this?
It's got me stumped, and my fiancees grandparents would love this picture as
they don't get out much anymore and with scenery like this on their doorstep
it's a shame to miss out.

Have any of your previous pano prints come close to this size? What
application are you printing from? I don't recognize the preview you
posted. doesn't look anything like that for my 1270. Does it's page setup
match that of the printer's?

 

[ThievingScouser]

Thought I would let everyone know I found a workaround for this problem.

Don't use Photoshop for really big panorama printing on my Epson printer.
:-(

I've been a photoshop user for about 8 years now and love the program, but
there seems to be a problem with the windows version of Photoshop 7 and
Epson 890 panorama printing. I tried it on 2 different machines 2000 and XP
and exactly the same issue.

I tried different paper widths, and upto 90cm it was fine, but anything over
that it would shrink the image and move it sideways off the paper. Very
strange.

So I downloaded Paint Shop Pro 8 trial version and thought I'd give that a
try, because if the same thing happened then it was a problem with the Epson
drivers and not Photoshop. But lo and behold with exactly the same print
quality and paper size settings it works fine in PSP.

I must say the print interface of PSP seems much better than Photoshop, with
lots of adjustment options outside the printer driver.

I'll stick with Photoshop for my photomanipulation, but will maybe see how I
go with PSP for my printing needs from now on.

Ed

 

[Mark Herring]

Hiya,
I'm hoping the good people here can help me out with this problem, I have no
idea how to fix it.

I've had my Epson Photo 890 for a while and never had a problem printing off
panoramic prints before but this one is behaving very strangly.
I have a picture I took a few years ago when in Australia and as I'm going
back on Monday thought it would be great to print the picture out for some
relatives there that would love it I'm sure.

The image is 23,861 x 2,362, which at 300 dpi should give me a 202 x 20cm
picture.
You can see a small(ish) version of the pic here
http://www.thievingscouser.co.uk/panorama3_web.jpg

I setup a user defined paper type in the printer setup to use a roll of
width: 2100 and height: 22000
I get this very strange result;
http://www.thievingscouser.co.uk/panorama3_print_screenshot.jpg

The print

I'd say the print size is set smaller than the paper size
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Mark Herring, Pasadena, Calif.
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