Digital BW, The Print

Definitely.

My system consists of PC with W2k, PS7, Epson 1270 with Ultratone 
CIS.  

I only use a fraction of Qimage can do and I do most of the image 
manipulation in PS7 but use QI to optimise the print quality and 
autosharpen.

I have uploaded a couple of scan of PS7 printing and QImage printing 
for you to see real world scans.  In addition to being an excellent 
piece of software Mike Chaney updates this like nothing on earth and 
all for the one registration.  You can see the images at 
http://www.littleblueplanet.co.uk/not-QIsharpened.jpg and 
http://www.littleblueplanet.co.uk/QI-sharpened.jpg

and readmore about Qimage at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qimage/messages 

Not very user friendly admittedly but bl**dy good at what it does.

Gareth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie Ess" 
<albatros-@g...> wrote:
> Hi, since I have started archival b&w printing on an Epson 1160 
with 
> MIS - FS mostly - I have always printed with the Epson driver out 
of 
> PS. However I keep reading hymns of praise about Qimage. I remember 
> having tried out an evaluation version of Qimage some time ago, but 
I 
> found the program hardly understandable to use and gave up quickly. 
> 
> So my question is: Could one achieve better results when printing - 
> avter having applied the curves for the inks in PS - out of Qimage?
> 
> Has anyone had good results with this?
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Bernie