xres printing

[Licensed to Quill]

Any idea why xres prints items which are beyond second or third on the spool
three or four times the size of prior items? All items along this spool
only print the central third or quarter of any picture on the whole of any
piece of paper.

(I note that xres is the only software I have which actually spools colour
print items, as opposed to jamming up the software while it is printing,
although I am wondering if it is designed to do so)

Also I note that xres isn't all that good at printing exactly the same
colours as they actually appear on the page. Is this something to do with
your discontinuance of Xres? Should I get another program to do this and if
so, which one? is it not supposed to work properly with an HP 882 inkjet
printer? It DOES print significantly better than Micorsoft photo editor
or Imaging but so far the only program which I can get to print even vaguely
as appears on the screen is the software which was supplied with the printer
(Microsoft Picture It) DOes XRes really only work on postscript (colour)
printer?

Jonathan Steinberg

[Tim Hines]

Are you on Mac or PC. Are you using Color management software? (colorsinc)
Does your HP allow you to adjust colors that it prints? On my Epson Stylus
Photo I can adjust the color balance to my liking and save the settings for
future use. I imagine the HP is similar. Do you have another program like
FreeHand in which you could place a tiff image produced from X-res? If so,
try making a tif and putting it in the other program and printing from that
program to see if the same problem exists. Then you will know if it is a
system wide problem with color management or just an Xres problem.

Tim Hines