Digital BW, The Print

I know there are RGB ICC profiles for QTR gray-matte and gray-photo.  I also know these are to be used for printing from Qimage.  I have and have used Qimage for a number of years and happen to be using it this morning.  That brought up the question in my mind--just how are others printing from Qimage using QTR?  Are you printing to file, then using that saved tiff to bring into the QTR GUI?

Diane
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Diane B. Fields
picnic@...
photo site  http://www.pbase.com/picnic

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Diane Fields"
<picnic@c...> wrote:
> I know there are RGB ICC profiles for QTR gray-matte and gray-photo.
 I also know these are to be used for printing from Qimage.  I have
and have used Qimage for a number of years and happen to be using it
this morning.  That brought up the question in my mind--just how are
others printing from Qimage using QTR?  Are you printing to file, then
using that saved tiff to bring into the QTR GUI?
> 
> Diane
> -----------
> Diane B. Fields
> picnic@c...
> photo site  http://www.pbase.com/picnic

Diane,

That's what I do.  Print to file (to the desktop) in Qimage and drag
the image to the QTR GUI.

Tom

> That's what I do.  Print to file (to the desktop) in Qimage 
> and drag the image to the QTR GUI.
> 

The desktop method is cool because if you don't save your output files, you
can just drag the file to the trash when you are done printing.  The other
slight variation is to print to file by saving into the QTR GUI monitor
folder and printing will start automatically.  The only irritating thing is
that Qimage does not remember your output folder so you have to set it every
time.

Paul

Thanks Paul and Tom.  As I was using Qimage for some other printing this morning I was thinking just how others did it--and this was all I could come up with.  In fact, I was printing to file for ohter reasons.

I like the tip of printing to file to the desktop and then dragging it to QTR and then deleting the file easily.  One reason I have even considered Qimage is because it does a very good job of 'smart sharpening' and interpolating.  I normally use PKS but to use it with QTR  invoves a bit of rigamarole if I softproof with gray-LAB.  I'll have to try Qimage and see if it makes my workflow easier for QTR.

Diane

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul A. Yesnosky 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:43 AM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: QTR--printing from Qimage


  > That's what I do.  Print to file (to the desktop) in Qimage 
  > and drag the image to the QTR GUI.
  > 

  The desktop method is cool because if you don't save your output files, you
  can just drag the file to the trash when you are done printing.  The other
  slight variation is to print to file by saving into the QTR GUI monitor
  folder and printing will start automatically.  The only irritating thing is
  that Qimage does not remember your output folder so you have to set it every
  time.

  Paul



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Would it be useful for QTRgui to have an automatic delete after printing a file?
This could be incorporated into the folder monitoring. (Right now you can
configure it to delete an older file of the same name when it prints a new
file.)

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Fields [mailto:picnic@...] 
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 8:45 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: QTR--printing from Qimage
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Paul and Tom.  As I was using Qimage for some other 
> printing this morning I was thinking just how others did 
> it--and this was all I could come up with.  In fact, I was 
> printing to file for ohter reasons.
> 
> I like the tip of printing to file to the desktop and then 
> dragging it to QTR and then deleting the file easily.  One 
> reason I have even considered Qimage is because it does a 
> very good job of 'smart sharpening' and interpolating.  I 
> normally use PKS but to use it with QTR  invoves a bit of 
> rigamarole if I softproof with gray-LAB.  I'll have to try 
> Qimage and see if it makes my workflow easier for QTR.
> 
> Diane
> 
>

> Would it be useful for QTRgui to have an automatic delete 
> after printing a file?
> This could be incorporated into the folder monitoring. (Right 
> now you can configure it to delete an older file of the same 
> name when it prints a new
> file.)

Yep, as long as it was configurable.  Most times I just delete the files in
the "Processed" folder every so often to keep things cleaned up.  Having
them deleted automatically would be good but sometimes I do like to keep the
files in the "Processed" folder a couple of days if I know I am going to
re-print later.  In those cases it's nice to just drag an old processed file
right back to the GUI.  Perhaps just having QTRgui "soft delete" the files
to the trash can (if possible) would be cool instead of a "hard delete".
This would allow you to recover a file from the trash if you really wanted
to save it.

My $0.02...

Paul

OK. I guess a better solution would be to use my CleanTemp
(http://www.sbillard.org/Shareware/index.htm) program to clear out the files
from the processed folder when they have aged. 

CleanTemp lets you select folders to process. It also lets you select how old a
file must be before it is deleted. It is also free. So, I will recommend its use
rather than add this kind of capability to QTRgui.

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul A. Yesnosky [mailto:pyesnosky@...] 
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 8:50 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: QTR--printing from Qimage
> 
> 
> 
> > Would it be useful for QTRgui to have an automatic delete
> > after printing a file?
> > This could be incorporated into the folder monitoring. (Right 
> > now you can configure it to delete an older file of the same 
> > name when it prints a new
> > file.)
> 
> Yep, as long as it was configurable.  Most times I just 
> delete the files in the "Processed" folder every so often to 
> keep things cleaned up.  Having them deleted automatically 
> would be good but sometimes I do like to keep the files in 
> the "Processed" folder a couple of days if I know I am going 
> to re-print later.  In those cases it's nice to just drag an 
> old processed file right back to the GUI.  Perhaps just 
> having QTRgui "soft delete" the files to the trash can (if 
> possible) would be cool instead of a "hard delete". This 
> would allow you to recover a file from the trash if you 
> really wanted to save it.
> 
> My $0.02...
> 
> Paul
>
>