Digital BW, The Print

Why not sharpen in PS?

What I would like to see is an image printed through PS and an image  
through Qimage. No additional processing on either or the same  
processing on both and do a comparison.


On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 06:30  AM, garethlock4472 wrote:

> 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
>
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Regards,

Loring Palleske
Creative Imaging
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