Pano Printing B9180

Hi all,

I have been taking Panos and now have decided to try printing them on my B9180. I have Red River 13 x 38 paper, and am using AutoPano Pro V2 to create them, and then importing them into Lightroom version 2.4 for printing. When I save the image in AutoPano, the size was 2631 x 785. I remember that the size to be saved was less than 13 x 38. I imported the image into Lightroom, added some developments settings, and then went to the print module. Zoom to fill, and rotate to fit are checked, the margins are zero, the cell size is 13.0 x 37.86, print resolution is 300, print sharpening high, and I have a glossy paper profile selected. I have created a custom 13 x 38 paper in the printer dialogue box, and when I print one, the preview shows that two pages are required. I have gone back to AutoPano and have downsized the image size several times with the file size as 2631 x 785, with the same result. Obviously I don't know what I'm doing, and could use some guidance to figure out what size to save the image as to import into Lightroom to print. Out of curiosity, I sent the image to be edited in Photoshop CS 3, and it says the size is approximately 44 inches. Any help would be much appreciated, I seem to be struggling here!! Thanks in advance.....Best, Bob

You have to create the page set up with the 9180 margins. If you leave them to zero, your page will tile onto two pages. I'd try resetting the margins to less 5 mm L,R, Top and 17mm bottom. The image size should be less than 13" wide too by 10mm. The page set up can be and probably should be 13" wide. Don't forget that each and every job is measured ( media sheet) . If the media is not what is stated on the box the print job can be rejected. I've seen third party media short by 1 mm and that is all it takes to having an alert for paper size and possible rejection.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try. Best, Bob

Bob Altic said:

When I save the image in AutoPano, the size was 2631 x 785.

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Bob,

I don't know anything about the B9180 or Autopano, but I can tell you that once you figure the paper thing out you will need higher resolution than 2631 x 785 to print a 13" x 38" pano. I'm sure there is a setting in AutoPano to create a higher res file than that.

Hi Todds,

I was trying to save it in a size close to the paper size. I am dumber than a box of nails concerning sizing for printing. Thanks for the help...Best, Bob

todds said:

Bob Altic said:

When I save the image in AutoPano, the size was 2631 x 785.

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Bob,

I don't know anything about the B9180 or Autopano, but I can tell you that once you figure the paper thing out you will need higher resolution than 2631 x 785 to print a 13" x 38" pano. I'm sure there is a setting in AutoPano to create a higher res file than that.

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Not sure where you got that resolution from. For one thing, it's too long. The 785 wide translates to 60ish DPI. At 60 DPI the print will be almost 44" long. This is probably the reason that it's wanting to print on 2 sheets.

60DPI is also way too low for print resolution. If you've got more resolution in the originals (which I'm sure you do,) you would want to output a much larger file. I'm not familiar with the pano program you're using, but I'm sure it's got options for higher output resolutions. For 300 DPI (fairly optimal,) you would want your output to be 11,400x3900. If that's too unwieldy, 150 dpi (5700x1950) should be acceptable.
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