Digital BW, The Print

Suggestion: try printing from Lightroom 2 (I think there's a free test
download). 

I've not fully abandoned QTR for Lightroom (lack of practice) but I
suspect I will... Lightroom's far-greater "B&W" tone control is
interesting (not yet fully explored) and it's printer-side sharpening,
which seems to contribute without adding artifacts to
already-carefully-sharpened files.

I know nothing about Aperture, other than urban legends that it's not
as competent for printing as Lightroom. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Gervin"
<e-gg@...> wrote:
>
> Richard,
> 
> I use Qimage, and there is really only one reason I use it.  I think
> it makes my prints look better.  They claim they optimize data sent to
> the printer better than PS, and it's possible that part of the
> difference I see is this optimization.  But the program also has a
> very interesting printing-side sharpening filter which seems to
> outperform anything I've seen anywhere else - in PS or using
> Focalblade or whatever).  Photos look noticeably sharper without
> looking digitally sharpened at all.  Again, I have no idea how much of
> this is the sharpening filter, and how much is the superiority of
> their data optimization, but my images flatly look better using it. 
>