Good morning,
I am probably not the best person to answer you since I am a 100% Qimage person.
Many like Lighroom, mainly for its ability to keep you images stored in a sensible manner.
Obviously, you turned to Qimage because you were not satisfied with the prints from LR.

First of all, you can easily let Qimage read the card from the camera and download the images from the card. All you have to do is give your new folder a name.
Second, Qimage (I assume the Ultimate version) immediately develops your raw files. If you think they need some tweaking, you open REFINE with one click, and refine the image with White Balance, exposure adjustment (again each of those with one click), add fill light if needed, and HDR slider to improve any lost detail.

Here's the best part.
You tell qimage ultimage what size print you want. You set the driver to paper type, quality level, and yes or no on color controls (depending on whether you use printer profiles), and print.
There is no upsampling to 600 ppi, there is no double interpolating which degrades the image, nor any other pre printing file needed.
You can crop the print or the image using Qimage Ultimate.
Qimage will save the settings you used for the printer, the JOB, the paper settings, all of it.
Last but not least, you will get the best prints ever!!

I realize that you are accustomed to Light Room, and it wont be easy to convince you. You have to convince yourself. That's what the trial version is for.
Oh, by the way, Qimage Ultimate has Tone targeted sharpening, and also beats ACR (the raw processor used in LR and CS5) to process and develop your raws.

Thank you for listening.
There's loads of help on here.
Convince yourself!

Fred

Hi,
The main thing here is superior quality prints 
You said originally:
It is important as Fred said that you do not re-sample your image in any way prior to sending to Qimage.
If the 600ppi you refer too is the is the number reported from the driver above the Qimage page preview on the main screen, that is what to expect; it is the Native Resolution of the Canon printer. Qimage prints are top quality because it re-samples to this resolution as it sends the image to printer and does it with a unique top class algorithm.

There are others here who use LR so they will tell you their work flow and perhaps why it takes so long for LR to pass an image to Qimage.
Get the printing sorted first but raw processing is not that difficult in Qimage, in fact it's far simpler than most other converters I've used. Again, Mike's clever mathematics do a lot of the work for you and the the concept of clicking areas of the image to refine the conversion is unique as far as I know - it's fast! The best part is in terms of simple work flow, is that there's no need to convert to another format (unless you've some really fancy editing to do), print from the raw file.
Terry.

Hi Dennis & bodtwo,
I find that Qimage does too, what with customising the raw NR and USM for your camera(s), plus the NR tools in the editor and now Tone Targeted sharpening, that latter being a world beater imho.
The other feature that helps to get top class print that I forgot to mention, is Smart Final Print sharpening, set it and leave it for all prints.
All good reasons to transfer to Qimage Ultimate which is a bargain price.
Terry