The General Settings

Selecting the Printer, the media you wish to print to and the print resolution. Once done, colormanagement is set up and you are ready to print.

The Paper Settings

If you ever printed to roll media you know how many steps need to be prepared in order to just use as little media as required. Using Mirage makes it very simple. Select your paper feed (cut sheet or roll), select a standard size or define one of your choice. That's it.

Borderless Printing: Mirage offers all borderless printing options available for your printer. The big advantage is obvious: The Mirage preview allows you full control over these settings - now you can see what parts of your image will be cropped.

Why resizing an image in Adobe Photoshop to print it right sized? Forget about the steps you have done in the past to enlarge or shrink before printing. Mirage makes life simple and printing to the desired size easy. The settings for Width / Height can be made in "cm", "Inches" or "%".

For many reasons you may want to add white borders to your image. Well, doing so in Photoshop takes time and adds weight to your image size.

Mirage makes that very smart and easy. Just add a border individually sized for top, bottom, right and left.

Boders may be added without beeing colored (white) or they may contain mirrored parts of the image (ideal if the image was printed to canvas and will be stretched onto a wooden frame). Selecting "Epson Type" will automatically add the borders and crop marks required for the "Youframe" © framing system.

Color up your borders. Select the border color from the color selector or by using the color picker. The color picker allows you to "pick" the clor for the border from your images - that way your borders will fit 100% the color of your image.

To exactly position your image on the media using the printer driver is between very difficult and impossible. Mirage has all tools to provide you with powerful control to position your image on the media and allows you a preview of your settings on the fly.

If your printer supports advanced black & white printing mode that might be the best choice for printing powerful images without interfering colorshiftings. Although the standard printer driver provides you with some control on advanced black and white printing you do not have control over the results of your settings due to the lack of a softproof.

Select your gray gamma and see effect (soft proof) on the selected mode in the "Print Preview" tab.

For the very most cases the color-management is set up in Mirage once the printer, the media and the print resolution was set. Professionals want some more control setting a rendering intent.

Select your rendering intent and see effect (soft proof) on the selected rendering intent in the "Print Preview" tab.

"Simulate Paper White" allows you to preview the differences between the "lightening" colors your monitor shows and the "reflecting" colors of your prints.

Print marks are helpful for many reasons. Specially the crop marks are used quite often to support you cropping your image. Did you notice that the Photoshop cropmarks are not helping for the very most cases. You do one cut and the other crop marks are gone?

Mirage offers you among many other print marks "inward corner cropmarks" that will provide cropping help until your final cut.

The page preview / print preview provides full control on all settings you made for printing your file.

The "Page Preview" allows you to control all settings that effect the image (like soft proof of all color management settings, borders, print marks etc.

See all changes to the layout of your image in the "Print Preview" (like position on the media, alignment etc.) before you print them and risk a waste of media.

Use the "Document" window to manage you images for printings. Select / deselect images and set the number of copies.

We define "Instances" as different versions of one image. Make your settings per copy like print size, border settings etc.

As an example print one image 3 x in pass photo size plus 5 x in 2x3 inches...

Select how your images will be layouted automatically to your media. The following options are available: "Optimize for minimal waste", "Optimize for easier cutting", "One Copy per Sheet / Row" and "Grid"

Grid is a smart way to create contact sheets with ease. Simply define the number of Columns / Rows and Mirage will layout your images into the grid...