I have had Qimage for some time and it works a teeny little better than Photoshop.  I use ACDSee Pro 3 for workflow, and CS5 for final adjustments.  So printing from RAW doesn't mean much to me.  After all these years I still find Qimage Pro to be fiddly and sometimes annoying, there is nothing intuitive about it.  Everything it does is not done like any other software.  I use CS5, ACDSee, formerly Lightroom, Picassa, even PSE, so I'm not exactly a beginner.   Even after reading your article, I'm not sure it's worth 80 or 90 $ to me.  Is the new version any easier to use?  The description makes is look like a long steep learning curve to do what I already do.