Hi All

Something mentioned on another post thread talked about using/setting up in LR for QU to be an additional external editor choice ~ never noticed that as such before

However, what are the best required output choices in the following settings:-

File Format

Colour Space

Bit Depth

Resolution

Compression

TIA for the welcome feedback on this part of the setup

I always print from Lightroom through Qimage. However, I don't use it as an external editor. Instead I created two Export presets, called Qimage JPEG and Qimage TIFF, where Qimage is called at the end of the export process. You can select an external program to be called at the lower end of the export dialog. Contrary to the external editor, you can specify a separate directory, where the files to be printed should be saved. I have checked the option that the files should be added to my catalog, this way the directory with my prints shows up in the catalog. The export way let's you also t add a watermark, if you want.

As I follow the non-destructive workflow mostly, I discard usually my printed RGBs from time to time, because they are interim files, just send to Qimage. In order to keep track what I printed, I create either virtual copies for crops or special edits necessary for printing and mark them with blue color. A smart collection serves to show me all the images, I have printed.

Thanks all for the feedback 

I take the point about saving any conversions with initial processing to a selected folder ~ this I have been doing but as I had only just really come across the "open in external editor" function at that time I thought oh what a good idea 

What I now need to do is look at "export presets" as advised by tgutgu (LR is still very much new territory to me) ~ I also need to look more into export options i.e. as PSD or TIFF to avoid any initial JPEG degradation once they are opening in QImage or indeed PS that could happen though granted any such losses would be tiny if exported and opened/saved in the external editors???

Thanks again ~ always good to try to improve the workflow