I myself use Qimage almost exclusively for ALL my photo printing. Turn off the auto output sharpening and both images will very like appear identical.

If you print to ANY printer say out of Photo Shop or other Editing Software and you then print the same image from Qimage using its default settings for sharpening and auto resolution conversion to the Printer's native Resolution, the resulting print will appear 'Better' to you and most people who view it nest to the Photo shop one. Your probably right,if I have to ask then I probably don't need the upgrade. But the 44” version is $650 when bought separately. It is often bundled with 17” and larger format Epsons in Europe. If you are used to Qimage, I am sure it works out fine, but I can’t imagine anyone picking it up after using a modern interface.ĭinax Mirage is an incredible printing program, more modern and much, much smoother to use than Qimage. Like I said, I couldn’t have done what I did using Lightroom, but I will continue to use Lightroom whenever I can – the interface is so much better for most printing. Using a magnifier, I could see some difference, but I couldn’t say one was better than the other, just a little different. I couldn’t see any difference viewing hand held. I printed a 9' x 12' of a section of the image using the Qimage default sharpening and resizing algorithm, and using standard sharpening and 360 ppi in Lightroom. I hadn’t used Qimage since switching to Lightroom several years ago, so I was interested in comparing the two.

I had to use Qimage Ultimate (or a RIP, or Mirage) because of length limitations inherent in Epson drivers. I had to print a 13' x 2' photomontage a couple of weeks ago.

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