Digital BW, The Print

Only problem is you can't use a color managed printing workflow yet  
(eg. can't use Create-icc profiles for printing) with Lightroom and  
QTR.  There seems to be a bug in Lightroom and/or OS X that is  
producing this problem.  Roy was looking into this problem before I  
left a few weeks ago for vacation, but I don't know if he has found  
any solution uet.

Carl Schofield

On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Walker Blackwell wrote:

> Hey everyone. I've been busy in the last few days exploring the
> wonders of Lightroom v1 in conjunction with the newest QTR for OS X. I
> must say, the two apps work together wonderfully. Because Lightroom
> runs both processors to the max (I've seen it running at 192% in
> Activity Viewer with my duel G5) a 30x40 rips in under a minute. Then
> it takes about another minute (or less) to copy into queue and then
> boom, it's printing. This applies for all images, color and grayscale.
> As a StudioPrint user, this "little" app is just blowing every other
> tiling software's pants off. I see only three problems right off  
> the bat:
>
> 1. The software doesn't let you do per image resizing very well (you
> get tiling but they all have to be similar in size). 2. It has a max
> file size of 10,000 pixels on the longest side. (I figure Adobe will
> fix this soon.) 3. You set your print size based upon the image
> margins. In other-words. this program is pixel-based. The meta-data
> for the image-size (ala Photoshop) is not used. So you have to know
> what size you're printing the image to begin with. For normal users
> that is fine. But as a print lab, I have to open the images in
> Photoshop in order to see the print-size that the customer wanted if
> they are communicating that way. Small but significant.
>
> But aside from that, the goods out-way the bads. Non-destructive image
> editing. Full database support that auto-updates to the OS X folder
> system. ProPhoto working space. Very comprehensive print templates
> that can be saved and migrated to different machines very easily. It's
> FAST. Auto updates from Adobe. It costs less than $300.00. It can span
> multiple hard-drives (when a hard-drive is off-line the gallery just
> shows red but gives you your thumbnails). It does all the hunky-dory
> wedding stuff (output to Flash and HTML and Websites, etc etc).
>
> So now that I have a tiling application that can rip an image with
> 100% of my computer's power, it makes QTR all that more appealing. The
> other reason? Because I can do split toning with my SL and WN Quad
> printer in 1% increments + split those tones differently in the
> shadows mid-tones and highlights. This is something StudioPrint hasn't
> even approached.
>
> Just wanted to share this with you. In the last few days this
> application pretty much took over my entire work-flow for prints 30x40
> inches on down.
>
> I'd be interested in the Aperture side of things as well if anyone's
> using that on this board. I stopped experimenting with that program
> because it was so slow.
>
> take care all,
> Walker Blackwell
>
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