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I prefer Qimage.
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Ed
 
QImage is much better for printing than CS3.

You also might check out Lightroom -- I have found its output as good as QImage, and it is much simpler to configure and use. Though QImage does have more features.

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-- Pmatt
Gallery - http://www.silentcolor.com
 
I have been using Qimage for a number of years. The best investment I ever made. Free upgrades for life is got to be a good deal!

It is easy to use and gives much better control for all sorts of printing jobs.

Go and treat yourself it....

Regards etc.
 
In my experience QImage is better if you want to enlarge a lot or you want to print to a size that requires a lot of interpolation. It's also much quicker for me to image edit in Capture NX and output as a tiff for printing then using QImage and leaving photoshop alone altogether unless I need to retouch the photo to remove dirt or something first.

I think that a lot depends on the printer and driver that you are using too looking at other people's posts although I have only tried it with my printer so I can't confirm that.
 
I notice that the Qimage website is directing people to run Crossover Mac to use Qimage on an Intel Mac. Can anyone comment on their experiences using Qimage this way? I've been very interested in trying Qimage and just recently upgraded to an Intel Mac.
 
If you looked despite my n/t......

there is no mac version and most likely never will be.....
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pjs
kansas 'the flat & happy state'
'the better the photographer,
the bigger the wastebasket' pjs 1972
Fine Art Prints by Patrick
no habla Mac
 
psandham said:
If you looked despite my n/t......

there is no mac version and most likely never will be.....
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pjs
kansas 'the flat & happy state'
'the better the photographer,
the bigger the wastebasket' pjs 1972
Fine Art Prints by Patrick
no habla Mac
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You're right, that's why I haven't been able to try Qimage in the past. However, in visiting the Qimage website again today, I noticed that they are directing people to get the Crossover Mac software that will allow Windows apps (such as Qimage) to run on an Intel Mac. That was the reason for my question - I was hoping to hear from someone who is running Qimage in this way to see if it works well.
 
Matt F said:
You also might check out Lightroom -- I have found its output as
good as QImage, and it is much simpler to configure and use. Though
QImage does have more features.
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....since I started using LR for printing I havent had the urge to use QImage once. If decicing between PS and QImage, I'd use QImage although I only have CS2 so I don't know if printing (both interface and end-results) has improved in CS3.
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CHEERS!
 
...after using QImage for several years, I found out there is contest and imho its better: have a try with Lightroom. It does it all with comparable good output but much better and faster interface. The fact that your files are already in LR is a nice bonus and adds even more speed ;)
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CHEERS!
 
But could anyone please tell me how qimage affect the quality of the output ? isnt the driver together with icc and paper the factors that effect the output quality ?

thanx

Kindest
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Regards
Paul L.
 
It is, but if your image goes over at a non native resolution (such as 583dpi or something) then software can use better algorithms for resizing than the ones built into the printer
 
thanx for the info.

That does mean that Lighroom does this diffrently then cs3 ?

Since a few seem to consider lightroom equal to qimage ?

Kindest
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Regards
Paul L.
 
deug said:
software that will allow Windows apps (such as Qimage) to run on an
Intel Mac.
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I have two intel-based Macs and I use Parallels virtualisation software. It works perfectly, running Windows in a Mac window, or full screen. Using the two monitor facility, I have one screen as a Mac and one as a Windows machine. All in all, it's a statrling sight!

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Best wishes,

Alan J

http://www.pbase.com/wolfs_head
 
Foxie said:
Matt F said:
You also might check out Lightroom -- I have found its output as
good as QImage, and it is much simpler to configure and use. Though
QImage does have more features.
Click to expand...
....since I started using LR for printing I havent had the urge to
use QImage once. If decicing between PS and QImage, I'd use QImage
although I only have CS2 so I don't know if printing (both
interface and end-results) has improved in CS3.
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CHEERS!
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I have not been happy with the print module in Lightroom and now have Qimage set as the my external application in photo/edit in ... The major problem I have found in using the Lightroom print module is that it introduces jaggies in slanting lines which Qimage does not.

Here is an example of a print printed using Lightrooms print module



while here is the same thing printed in QImage



These are both scans of the centre of small prints (5.5" x 3.5") printed on a Canon iP8500 printer using Ilford Galerie Classic Pearl paper. The camera was a D1H.

Looking closely at these the QImage print has more detail in which the Lightroom print module just seems to have blurred away. The originals as sent to the 2 print modulus are identical so the problem must be in the Lightroom print module. As I remember I used the recomended (by Martin Evening in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book) sharpening settings in the print module.
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Dave
http://www.rosser.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.pbase.com/dgrosser
 
I am running it talking to my Epson R1800 on my Mac Pro via Parallels. It took me months to find the secret that made it work though, and in that time I discovered that I preferred printing from Lightroom anyway.

Some printers are recognized automatically by Parallels, and some, like the Epson R1800 show up as a generic printer.

This set of instructions worked for me though...
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Parallels Printer Setup

After weeks of experiment, and thanks to the info on this forum, particularly the

idea from member mkstevo, I finally got the Epson Photo R800 working in a Windows XP

VM using Bonjour and native Epson driver. I can now print regular document as well as

CD/DVD label using CD Label Creator (part of Roxio Easy CD Creator package). The only
thing I cannot do is to check ink level.

Here is how to make it work step-by-step.

On the OS/X side:

1. Create a RAW CUPS printer
1.1. Start Safari or any web browser.
1.2. Type http://127.0.0.1:631 to start CUPS web admin page.
1.3. Click Printers tag.
1.4. Click Add Printer.

1.5. Type in Name, Location, and Description for the new printer, click Continue.
In my case, I use

Name: R800
Location: iMac
Description: R800 CUPS Printer

1.6. In the next screen, select "USB Printer (usb)" from the drop down. I suspect

FireWire would work if I connect the printer to FireWire, but I haven't tried it.
Click Continue.

1.7. Next screen is a tricky one. The URI of the printer can be found from the System
Profiler. Make sure your printer is connected and powered on. Launch System

Profiler (it should be inside Applications/Utilities folder). Click Hardward/Printers

in the left panel and select Stylus Photo R800 in the upper right panel. In the lower

right panel you should see a URI line about half way down. Mine looks like this:

usb: EPSON/Stylus Photo R800?serial=NE0050403172222460

Copy everything before the question-mark and paste it in the Device URI field.
Click Continue.

1.8. Select Raw, click Continue.
1.9. Select Raw Queue, click Continue.

Note: don't bother to print test page. You can't print to this printer from OS/X because it

doesn't have a real printer driver associated with. What it does is pass along whatever

data it receives to the R800 and that is what we want because all the processing should be
done by the Windows native driver.

2. Share the printer
2.1. Launch System Preferences.
2.2. Click Sharing icon.
2.3. Check Printer Sharing.

2.4. Click Firewall tag, make sure Printer Sharing is checked under "Allow:" as well.

Now we go to the Windows VM side:

1. Start Parallels, select XP VM, don't start it just yet.

2. Click USB Controller under Configuration, make sure "Connect USB devices automatically"
is unchecked.
3. Start XP VM.
4. Download and install the latest Epson driver for Windows XP.
5. Download and install Bonjour.
6. Launch Bonjour Printer Wizard.
6.1. Click Next.

6.2. In the Browse Bonjour Printer screen you should see two printers listed. Choose
the one that matches the CUPS printer description (in my case it is R800 CUPS
Printer), click Next.

6.3. In the Install Bonjour Printer screen, select EPSON under Manufacturer and EPSON

Stylus Photo R800 under Model. This will install the Windows native driver for the
Bonjour printer. Click Next.
6.4. Click Finish. Your printer is installed.

This is it. Make a test

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-- Pmatt
Gallery - http://www.silentcolor.com
 
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