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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Printing from LR

2012-03-26 by Ernst Dinkla

On 03/25/2012 07:53 PM, Mike Finley wrote:
> No, QTR was originally written for the Mac, and uses the gutenprint
> print driver (open source, part of linux). It was first ported back to
> linux, allowing PC users to dual boot to use it (I used it this way
> originally) and then later qtrgui was written to give a native PC
> Windows printing program.
>
> Yes, the only printing route on the PC (that I'm aware of) for any
> graphics program is to output to file and then use qtrgui.
>
> I'm not 100% certain that jpg files are supported by qtrgui - I actually
> use Qimage to generate final print files (as TIFFs), largely for
> historical reasons.
>

It would still be nice if QTR could become a normal Windows driver, with 
all the nice features still available but allowing a direct print path 
from Qimage through QTR. My pet QTR topic.

There was a hot folder method for QTRGUI that I used in the past.

JPEG is supported now.

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