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v2018.100   Jun 13, 2017

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2018.100 is our 20th anniversary update with redesigned UI and more: see the 2 minute intro video, https://youtu.be/h1umDW6cJz0

Mike

Congratulations on the 20 years Mike. You have a lot to be proud of with your excellent software and support. I'm sure, like me, many hundreds (thousands) of Qimage users are grateful for your making top quality printing software affordable.

I've had a cursory look at the new interface and I can see it's improved functionality.

One thing I've noticed is that the thumbnails appear to be larger, and now even the "small" size setting is larger than preferred for the new layout on my screens.  Update: see my reply to Fred, below.

Cheers and thanks.

Peter

Mike,

Congratulations, a fine upgrade for a 20th Anniversary celebration!
QUAlity; maybe the right time for an extra extension to Qimage Ultimate?

One suggestion; the Mark Edges and Print File info menu entrances shifted to the Prints menu?
They fit better there is my gut feeling. I often add 0.5mm +border plus mark corners and cut slightly within the marks.
Whether the Print filters should go there too is harder to say, they affect the image itself and relate more to processing and printer settings but the crop filters.

Anyway, I like this upgrade right from the start.

Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
March 2017 update, 750+ inkjet media white spectral plots

Peter,
I believe that Mike was making a sort of introductory video for new people that have never used QU before.
My screen is so much different.... Something about his video dimensions?
Let me make one that shows my screen. Be 30 minutes.

Fred

I made a quickie video of what I see and what I get.. 
For my old eyes.... manna from heaven

https://youtu.be/OsApLMJ3cbY

Remember to make full screen for HD  viewing

Fred

Wow!
20 years..  respect :)
Well done and thank you very much for one of the best written software ever made!
best regards.

Thanks very much Fred. You are right, the "flip/flop" function is good.

I had viewed both of Mike's 2018.100 introductory videos before posting.

For my use, I don't need to see high detail in the thumbnails because 99% of the time I printing from a folder containing TIFFs that were exported soley for printing from my primary processing software. Hence I don't need to distinguish similar images and prefer to see more thumbnails at a time. I think I previously had the size set to "medium" and with 2018.100 I set to "small"  in an attempt to get the preferred thumbnail size.

Update: I now see what was happening. The thumbnail size changes slightly with position of the divider. I can get my preferred thumbnail size by adjusting the divider position.

Peter

Easy Rani,
He will read your post and his hat will never fit again. His chest is so puffed out, no shirt either.
Small doses of praise.

Fred
 ::) ;D ;) :)

Hi Ernst,

Thanks for the praise and glad you are enjoying the update.  I can see those options being valuable on the Prints tab.  The reason they are on the Printers and Settings tab is that they affect the job as a whole; they are not per-print settings which I keep on the Prints tab.  There's also not much room for them on the Prints tab because you have to keep the minimum monitor resolution requirements in mind: 1024x768 is the minimum.

Regards,
Mike

Hi Mike,
Firstly like others congrats on 20 years, Seems like i've used it forever but the oldest installer i have archived is q08-205 :)

Love the UI update

Now for what is to me a MAJOR pain (bug) in the backside. QU does not initially remember which monitor it was last used on and always starts the splash screen on monitor 1 and then throws a monitor profile error..... once you get rid of the dialogs the main UI then opens up on the expected screen.

This also occurs in 2017 version as well but i've only just gone over to a new photo edit setup with a large 55" screen and hence screens with different profiles.

I hope that makes sense.
cheers
Phil

I'd like to add my congratulations to Mike for his excellent, and my favourite, program. I tried to work out when I started using it and it was probably at work when we were using Photoshop V7, which was 2002!
I love the new layout, but just one thing (which is me being thick), I can't find the Add Crop Marks/Mark edges/etc dialog box.

Brian

Hi Brian,
Good morning.
The crop marks / info boxes are at the bottom of the Printers and Settings screen.

Fred
PS I think it has been there all along.

Thanks Fred, I was being really thick!   :(

Brian

Cut down on the pizza
Fred

Ernst made the suggestion to put those on the Prints tab instead.  The mark edges, print file info, etc. are on the Printers and Settings tab because that's where I keep options that affect the whole job.  The Prints tab contains options that can be changed on a per-print basis.  Seems clean to me to keep that split between "job options" and "print options".

But by similar logic, those options do affect "prints" even if they do affect all prints at once, so I guess they could go either place.  Let's see what people prefer.  Just reply here if you have a preference: do you think print file info, mark edges, global filter, and print filter would be easier to work with on the "Printers and Settings" tab (where they are now), or the "Prints" tab?  If you have a preference, please reply either way because if only the people who would rather have it moved reply, I won't know what the consensus is.

I can easily put them either place... although there is more room where they are now.

Regards,
Mike

Mike
I would prefer them on the Prints tab as that's what I have open most of the time with the new layout, and I would only use the Printers tab to check that I've loaded the right settings at the start of a printing session. This is just my thought  at the moment, others may work differently and it may change with time.

Brian

I've just had a thought, perhaps you could put a 'Show More Info' button on both pages.
B

Hello Mike,

I am now in a dilemma on this and your ambivalence in the last message does not make it better :-) With the recent GUI change the four could be available at both pages or just once at the bottom of the Print Page tab where the nesting choices etc are. Affecting all the images like nesting choices etc also do and stay visible when either Printer Settings, Print or Queue menu are open. I guess when more driver settings are added to the Printers and Settings tab it could become crowded there too .......

Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
March 2017 update, 750+ inkjet media white spectral plots

Let me add my congrats as well on 20 years - not only to Mike but to all of us like myself for whom Qimage has become so important.  20 years  = I have been along for a bit more than half of that ride. So when Mike first created Qimage - I was still fumbling around in the darkroom trying to keep my developer to 100 deg F +/- half a degree.  I was not an early adapter to digital, and without Qimage, I'm not sure how I would ever have made the transition. So thanks Mike - and Fred and Terry and all of the other forum members here from whom I have learned so much.

Mel W. - Columbia