Digital BW, The Print

David Whistance wrote:
> Gary
> 
> Have you tried "Print to file" and then printed the resulting image through
> QTR?  It gives you the benefit of Qimage's sharpening/resizing but allows
> you to use the non Epson printer driver.

That's the way I have used it for my quad 9000. Print to 
file (Tiff) to 360 PPI in my case but you could use 720 PPI 
with a more recent Epson model. Drop that file (RGB as 
Qimage doesn't know anything else) in QTR. The rest can be 
customised in QTR. Some waste of paper as the Qimage print 
page has to fit QTR's print page. Smart print sharpening is 
as good for B&W as it is on color.

Now I use Qimage for both color and B&W mode (+ QTR profile) 
of the HP Z3100. Not the best cooperation possibel between a 
driver and Qimage but that's more HP's fault it seems. 
Despite that still better than with PS.

There's a lot more to Qimage than so far mentioned but it's 
hard to describe what aspect may appeal to a new user. The 
demo will tell much more. The border functions + cut marks. 
The nesting of more images including different sizes. The 
sizing on the fly. The templates. The job recall. Not that 
there are no things to be fixed in Qimage as well. I have 
quite a list meanwhile but my goodwill with Mike must have 
been lost in time. The mailing list is a good source for 
advice though.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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