Digital BW, The Print

Qimage to QTR using one of
> > the designated QTR gray spaces for Qimage.
> > 
> > Now I am working with an image that I scanned from a B&W 35mm negative
> > on my Epson Perfection 1650 Photo using Vuescan.  I'm not getting
> > WYSIWYG results at all.   )
> 
> in 16 bit. In Photoshop CS it is convert to the QTR gray lab 
> space (not that important you can also keep the image with 2.2 
> Gamma). Edit the image, save it again. Then I convert the 
> image to one of the QTR paper profiles in Photoshop as well. 

Is there a way to turn off Qimage's automatic sharpening?  

I've made some surprisingly good 12X18 from Epson 3200 flatbed-scanned
negs using Qimage, but I find it destructive to better scans from my
Nikon V. 

IMO Qimage is amazing for enlargements that one wouldn't think do-able
without the interpolation and sharpening, such as unsharp originals or
 from flatbeds, but with really good 35mm film and 4000ppi Nikon scans
printed to 12X18, Qimage seems a complication at best (maybe it
wouldn't be so bad if its sharpening was disabled, though I don't know
what it would contribute with good originals).

> That file is brought to Qimage and printed to file with its 
> color management disabled. QTR does the rest with the curves 
> and resolution selected that correspond to the paper profile 
> used in the Photoshop conversion.

 Qimage can be very automatic, but IMO it's not as good as CS2+QTR
alone unless one really needs the mult-printing for which it was designed.

John
 
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