Digital BW, The Print

> I can't comment on the difference in printing (dry setup still) 
> but I always suspected that the Qimage RGB routines may not 
> translate well in  greyscale printing.  Is it a 16 bit RGB file 
> that you get from the Print to File flow ? Roy probably can tell 
> what happens in QTR when RGB is translated.

Yes, it's a 16 bit RGB file.  Qimage does such a good job with it 
that I always use it for Paul Roark's curves.

> It never became clear why it couldn't be done but my guess is 
> that Qimage has an RGB colour engine only. The extrapolation, 
> colour management, sharpening are all based on that. Not that 
> strange as many print drivers default to monochrome (BO) printing 
> only if you feed them greyscale images. So I guess Mike thinks 
> that a good profiled colour printer usually delivers better B&W 
> than BO printing does. That's his opinion. He also sells Profile 
> Prism :-)

Profile Prism might have something to do with it but I think he's 
missing out on a nice little market here for Qimage.
  
> That he didn't want to add a greyscale conversion at the end of 
> Qimage's print to file route is a pity. Could just be that I'm 
> not the right person to ask for that feature. I've made a small 
> list of what could be added to make Qimage a better frontend for 
> QTR and send that to the Qimage list. You never know.
> 
> Ernst

He could surprise us though.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  
However anything having to do with QTR-GUI was kicked off his list so 
it could be "out of sight, out of mind" now.

Tom