Someone on the DPreview forum mentioned a nice trick to bring images for printing from Lightroom to Qimage. Set the external photo editor choice in Lightroom's preferences on Qimage and the Qimage print page loads the image immediately from Lightroom. The color space to be assigned to the image can be selected there too. After that you can still chance the Qimage and driver settings with the file in the queue selected. More copies of the image or other images can be be loaded on the same print page that way.

I wonder if that could also be done on a Mac running Lightroom and "running" Qimage, must be a more complicated path.


met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst Dinkla

spectral plots of +100 inkjet papers:
http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm

I setup a LR3 preset to do that but unfortunately it creates a TIFF in the LR library rather than a temporary TIFF file to pass to Qimage. That means there's another file to delete in LR once the printing is over.

I'd much rather it created a temp TIFF file.

jtm

In order to avoid the large TIFF file, I created an export preset with JPEG (100%) as the output format and Qimage to open once the export has been finished. Works similar to setting Qimage as an external editor.

I could improve the printing quality from Lightroom by setting the resolution to 360 ppi (recommended for Epson printers). I had forgot that and was printing initially with 240 ppi. With that setting the prints from Qimage are still better (especially watermarks) but the results are much closer.

Kind regards

Thomas