QTR-Quadtone RIP

The problem is that the printer driver model on Macs is very different from that on Windows, and offers capabilities that the Windows printer drivers don't have. Qtrgui embeds an implementation of the same printer driver model that the Mac OS contaions (technically, it embeds a gutenprint driver) and ignores the Windows printer driver interface. Lightroom on the PC uses the Windows printer interface, and so won't work with the QTR code.
It's not really that QTR is different, but that the Windows OS and Mac OS are very different when it comes to controlling printers.

Thanks Roy. I'm just trying to understand. I'm not that tech savy but I guess my question should be why can't QTR print through LR on on a Window OS but it can on a Mac OS? Or what is it about the Mac OS that allows this workflow(to utilize QTR through LR) but not a windows OS? Is QTR for Mac's that much different than Windows?

---In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, <roy@...> wrote:

It would be great if it was an ordinary print driver. I guess there's some possibility of it running

that way but it's not imminent for now.

Roy

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:19 AM, <kjrslr@...> wrote:

I've been away from the "darkroom" for a while but now that the winter winds are blowing, I'm getting back to my B&W printing. I'm running Win7-64 and utilize LR for 95% of my workflow. In the past I've had to print through the QTRgui but continually read about people printing QTR through LR but only thorugh mac os's. Will QTR ever be able to print through LR on a windows platform?

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