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I make digital negatives and positives, and sometimes for test purposes I print multiple copies of a test image side by side on a single sheet of transparency material, varying the ink density using the printer driver, or perhaps some other parameter. It’s easy to do that with Photoshop, but I can’t find a way to get the image out of the centre of the sheet in Affinity. I’m a very new user. Does anyone know if this can be done?

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

I suggest to watch the tutorial videos, e.g.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/311178905/

If I understand your question correctly, you want to place multiple copies of one image onto the canvas, and apply different adjustments to each copy, and print the complete document. This should be possible without much effort.

  • File>New: create new document with suitable settings (A4 or Letter size),
  • Edit>Place: place your image into the canvas
  • use Move Tool [v] to adjust size and position
  • Duplicate Layer, and move it to a chosen place
  • repeat 
  • Add Adjustment layers
  • Print or export document 

 

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5 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

If I understand your question correctly, you want to place multiple copies of one image onto the canvas, and apply different adjustments to each copy, and print the complete document.

I may have misunderstood the OP's intent but the mention of "varying the ink density using the printer driver" makes me wonder if that can be done on one printed sheet, even in Photoshop.

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20 minutes ago, R C-R said:

even in Photoshop

You can adjust the ink coverage in PS. So, doing test and saving different files, and importing them in ID/QXD is possible.

Perhaps also importing different images in Affinity apps, since they have the same core, and print this document is possible.

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On 11/13/2021 at 6:18 PM, ReubenDiaz said:

I can’t find a way to get the image out of the centre of the sheet in Affinity

No idea how you "vary ink ink density using the printer driver", so this hint could be misunderstanding. Just in case you are missing this "N-Up" option in the print dialog …

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37 minutes ago, Wosven said:

You can adjust the ink coverage in PS.

But can you do that via the print driver for different parts of a single printed page?

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7 hours ago, R C-R said:

But can you do that via the print driver for different parts of a single printed page?

Perhaps some printers can print the same images on a page with different ink density (between draft mode to hight end colors), but personaly I wouldn't use this, since I need a PDF file, not a printed sheet of paper with the right settings.

But such options would be usefull for people using their printers for more than checking and proofing their work. Printers can be sophisticated today.

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On 11/14/2021 at 9:59 PM, R C-R said:

I may have misunderstood the OP's intent but the mention of "varying the ink density using the printer driver" makes me wonder if that can be done on one printed sheet, even in Photoshop.

Yes, it can, I do it frequently. But you can’t do it in one go. Print a strip, put the paper back in, adjust the printing position in PS print dialogue, change the ink density in the driver. Print. Repeat.

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On 11/14/2021 at 4:40 PM, NotMyFault said:

Hi and welcome to the forum.

I suggest to watch the tutorial videos, e.g.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/311178905/

If I understand your question correctly, you want to place multiple copies of one image onto the canvas, and apply different adjustments to each copy, and print the complete document. This should be possible without much effort.

  • File>New: create new document with suitable settings (A4 or Letter size),
  • Edit>Place: place your image into the canvas
  • use Move Tool [v] to adjust size and position
  • Duplicate Layer, and move it to a chosen place
  • repeat 
  • Add Adjustment layers
  • Print or export document 

 

Thanks, I think I need to investigate the move tool. The point of my question though is not that I want to do it all in a single print operation, but that I need copies of the same image, varying in ink density, on the same piece of ohp material, so that I can take that on to use in whatever process I’m using. I do that currently by printing a strip, moving it’s location in the ps print dialogue, changing the ink density in the driver settings, then reprinting on the same sheet. I end up with a few strips side by side, varying only in ink density.

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