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Re: printing with Qimage

2005-04-05 by John Lill

Bernie,

I use Qimage rather than just QTR for 2 reasons:
1) Qimage's great interpolation for resizing.
2) Qimage's Smart Sharpening

John
--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie Raffe" 
<bernieraffe@a...> wrote:
> This is curious!
>  
> I also use Qimage, it's a great product – but now I only use it for
> colour prints and use QTR for b&w. Why bother going via Qimage for 
b&w,
> especially if the image has already been processed in Photoshop? 
The
> only reason I can think of is to allow multiple photos to be laid 
out
> first.
>  
> What am I missing?
>  
> Cheers,
> Bernie
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lill [mailto:johnlill2@y...] 
> Sent: 05 April 2005 12:16
> To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: printing with Qimage
>  
> 
> Diane,
> That's how I print, and I believe most others do, also. When I 
print 
> to file in Qimage, I set the printer ICC to QTR-RGB Gray Matte and 
> leave Smart Sharpening at the default. Then I open the tiff with 
QTR. 
> Works great. Some folks just set QTR to monitor a folder and let 
it 
> print automatically when the tiff is saved in Qimage. The 
> collaboration between Roy, Stephen, and Mike was wonderful and 
made 
> for a simple workflow.
> 
> I was thrilled when QTR was first released for Windows. Then when 
> Stephen created QTRGui, it was so much better. And now, with 
Mike's 
> input, and further improvements in QTR and the GUI, it's a real 
> pleasure to work with. Metemerism-free prints and I can easily 
change 
> the look from selenium-toned to warm and everything in between. 
What 
> fun!!
> 
> John L
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@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  HYPERLINK
> "http://www.pbase.com/picnic"http://www.pbase.com/picnic
> 
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