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Title: Combining Qimage with Light Room and the Epson 3800 Post by: Muizen on October 12, 2009, 07:15:49 AM I would like to know what would be the best way to work with LightRoom, Qimage and the Epson 3800 printer. What workflow will work best? I can integrate Qimage in LR and then print using LR and/or Qimage. Or I can export images that are ready for printing to a temp file and print from this file via Qimage. Perhaps there additional ways of using this set up?
Title: Re: Combining Qimage with Light Room and the Epson 3800 Post by: BrianPrice on October 12, 2009, 08:12:30 AM Hi
The way I work is to export from Lightroom as a maximum quality Jpg or a Tif without image sizing or sharpening , then print in QImage. You can crop in Lightroom or QImage, but leave the interpolation to QI. I save the file in a sub-folder called 'Prints' along with the original image files, but if you save all print files to a sub-folder along with the QI job files you can back everything up to DVD at one go. Brian Title: Re: Combining Qimage with Light Room and the Epson 3800 Post by: Muizen on October 12, 2009, 09:46:54 AM Hallo Brian: What I understand is that in your opinion it is better after post processing in LR not to use the printing capability in LR but to export to a print file and print using QI?
After printing using QI what would be the advantage of saving this print file? What does it mean: "leaving the interpolation to QI"? Harry Title: Re: Combining Qimage with Light Room and the Epson 3800 Post by: Seth on October 15, 2009, 08:17:26 PM Hallo Brian: What I understand is that in your opinion it is better after post processing in LR not to use the printing capability in LR but to export to a print file and print using QI? After printing using QI what would be the advantage of saving this print file? What does it mean: "leaving the interpolation to QI"? Harry I think he meant the "file for printing," not a print-to-file thing. Just saving the file that is going to be printed in a different folder. As to the interpolation, do not re-size in lightroom. Only crop to the size/shape you want but do not change the ppi--even if it says something wierd like 286.7. QI will handle that part. BETTER than anything else can. |