I've been photographing for 55 years and did wet darkroom stuff at home until the digital age struck. I got an HP all-in-one inkjet that produced hideous color so I gave up on printing. For some reason I wanted to get back in so I bought a cheap but well-reviewed printer (Canon Pixma ix6820, $120) and $50 worth of assorted Canon papers. I've been reading about Qimage and was convinced that color management demanded it, so I bought that too. Setting up the color management using the "V" video link made it almost easy - I just had to find out what Canon's cryptic icc file names meant.

Today I exported the Outback Printer Evaluation Image (http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi048/essay.html) from Lightroom to get it down to sRGB since that is what my monitor can handle (not sure if that's necessary) and printed on five different papers using Qimage. The results were beyond my dreams - truly superb. I now know what this setup can do. All I need is to find something of my own good enough to print.

Thank you Mike.