Ok, so I've tried it with the 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer' from the printer dropdown and it's the same.

I have an R1800 using MIS color inkset (refillable carts) and want to use this to make B/W prints on a couple types of HP roll paper (2 glossy and 1 matte).  I get leftovers from our department's large format printer, so that's why the "non-traditional" paper.  I've downloaded and looked at QTR and read a few articles on how to use the package for creating custom curves and ICC profiles.  I've seen where someone suggested using Qimage to "print to file" (tiff output) and then use QTR GUI for printing, while others print directly from Photoshop, but before I get to printing anything, I think I need to "profile" my ink/paper combination, and I'm not quite sure where to start and what settings to use. 

I assume I need to do the calibration steps to create curve files for my various papers and then linearize them.  I have a ColorMunki to read patches and make the appropriate settings for ink limit and relative ink density.  I've also looked at Keith Cooper's article at Northlight Images about using the Colormunki to assist in the linearization and generate an ICC profile.  Should I do the QTR calibrations first, and then go on to the ICC profile generation?  I assume so, but then what settings do I use in the printer?  Should I print the wedge pattern for Munki scanning from Qimage of from QTR GUI?

I realize that not using the 3-black ink system (MK, LMK, LLMK) will not give the best results, but all I'm really looking for is something better than what I'm getting from my ColorMunki profiles for this ink/paper combination.  I don't expect "professional" quality prints, but I'm pretty sure I can do better than what I have now.  If anyone out there can shed some light on this I would be very grateful.  If anyone has gone through this procedure with an R1800, I would appreciate hearing about how you set things up for using QTR.

Thank you in advance.

How would I do that, uninstall the driver, plug in the printer and hope windows picks it up?

jamie

Have you tried switching to another driver (preferably non-Epson) and doing the same commands?  We need to know if another driver is just as slow or corrects the problem, because it may be some other driver or setting (one I've never encountered) causing lag.

Mike

Actually, even before I reinstalled the driver there was no lag when opening the driver. It does seem fine, opens straight away so I don't really know what to do other than just accept that that's the way it is, at least on my system.

It isn't clearing anything, especially the queue.  It's just updating information and page layout.  In addition, raw images won't take any longer to add/work with than any other type of image.  The problem is still your driver.  Go into any program you like and click "File", "Printer Setup" and see how long it takes for your driver window to appear.  If it doesn't appear instantly and there is a delay, you need to figure out what the problem is on your machine that is making the driver hang.  QU accesses variables in the driver frequently and that access should be near instantaneous when it is trying to access variables via the driver.  If it isn't, you need to fix the driver, your machine config, or whatever is causing the driver lag.

Mike

OK Jamie,
Thanks.
I know Mike would want to be certain that the driver was reinstalled.
Fred

That's what I did, after I got rid of the scanner. Unistalled the 7900 driver vs6.71 then installed the latest 6.72.

Jamie,
Mike wont be around for a number of hours, but I am certain, that he wanted you to to uninstall and reinstall the driver for the Epson 7900.
That is the printer driver that he suspects is causing the delay.

Fred

Ok, so I've got rid of the scanner, uninstalled the driver and reinstalled the latest one, reset print settings in q but it's still not great. I think it is a tiny bit better but it's difficult to say as the original job that I was working on I've removed all of the filters etc and they're different images I'm working with now. It definitely gets worse with the more images you add and raw files are definitely much slower to add to the queue especially if they have additional filters/cutouts. The main problem is that the queue is cleared every time you do anything and then rebuilt (sometimes 2 or 3 times) so by the time you've added 10 images or more you've got a long wait between clicks. Is this constant clearing and rebuilding normal? Or is there any setting that can turn off the thumb rebuilding in the page preview?

Thanks again

Jamie