Hello,  We store all our photographs on a NAS hard drive.  All three PCs I use are connected via 1GB fast ethernet. Loading images into the QImage queue is very slow to load, crop, and print vs Lightroom 3.  Both QImage and Lightroom are pulling the files from the same (NAS) network drive but QImage grinds to a halt.  I prefer QImage over Lightroom but the speed of QImage is a deal breaker.   Any suggestions to speed up QImage?

Thanks,  John

John

The answer is very simple - copy your file onto your PC before printing. It will only take seconds, everything will run faster and printing will be more reliable.

Brian

What type of files are they and what resolution: are they raw or some other format?  Network file access is molasses slow on any system.  Lightroom isn't as sophisticated as Qimage in the printing department so it is likely doing a lot less with the file.  Qimage actually opens the file and interrogates it for resolution, looks for and extracts the ICC profile so that can be displayed in the queue, etc.  Those simple file accesses are a no brainer for a local drive but they are a problem on a network just due to the slow nature of opening a file on the network.  Lightroom also forces you to "import" images so they may be automatically caching some data on your local drive.  Gigabit networks make no difference when it comes to this slow file access.  You're not going to get anywhere near the maximum 100MB per second as far as file reads either.  I'd recommend using something other than network file storage when dealing with image files, especially ones on the large side.  That said, you may find that Qimage is faster if you let it finish building thumbs before you start adding images to the queue.  I don't know if you are doing that or not.  In Lightroom, that part is done when you import.

Regards,
Mike

I don't think it has anything to do with Lightroom having a "database".  Something is way wrong if it is taking 8 seconds to load an image into the queue.  I just tried it here and I was trying it going across a wireless network and you know how much slower that is than a wired gigabit network.  I was adding ~10 to 12 MB JPEG's and they went into the queue almost instantly (no way to time it).  Is a network printer also selected?  I'm thinking that the printer querries that Qimage does when adding to a page might be delayed or some other program might be interfering.  Try setting Qimage to print to file instead of a printer and see if you still get a delay.  Even across a network, the delay should be just a fraction of a second once the thumbnails have been built.

Mike