Qimage did the best job with the details.So you'll have to take my word for these initial results. I was going to make some pictures to compare the prints, but that almost never works well. No fiddling with contrast at the print stage in Lightroom, or in the other tools.Sharpening set to Default (5) for Qimage Standard for matte paper in Lightroom and whatever Canon Professional Print and Layout uses because there doesn't seem to be a setting to control print sharpening.Black and white mode explicitly selected in CPPL (which allows this) 'Printer manages color' in LR and Qimage (which means black and white mode via the driver).Black and white mode selected in the Canon driver.There's no setting for dpi that I can see, and this option was locked in. 600 dpi in Lightroom and Qimage 'finest quality' in CPPL.There's loads of fine detail in every part of the image that isn't sky or moving water.įor each of the three prints, I tried to keep everything similar or the same to make it a fair comparison: There are also some areas where details are in deep shadows getting those right is especially important for black and white. The test image I used has lots of detail everywhere, which helps in a comparison like this. The three prints were made using Lightroom's Print module Qimage One for Windows (via Lightroom plugin) and Canon Professional Print and Layout (CPPL) via Lightroom plugin. If there's detail, it will hold it very well, for a matte paper.

I made three prints with image areas of 11' x 15.5' on Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Matte paper on a Canon Pro-1000.

I haven't put my money down for a license yet (lots more testing to go), but if I keep getting the results I've gotten so far, I probably will. To cut to the chase, if you're using something else, you should try Qimage One. Note that this is not Qimage Ultimate, but the same developer is involved apparently it's a streamlined version that focuses on printing. So today I downloaded the 14-day trial version of Qimage One for Windows.

In a recent thread on native printer resolution, Qimage came up a few times, always positively. Since switching to the Canon Pro-1000, I've gone back and forth between Lightroom's print module, and Canon Professional Print and Layout (CPPL). When I was printing black and white with Epson printers, I used Quadtone RIP and a custom monochrome inkset - so it wasn't even an option. I've been peripherally aware of Qimage for many years, but never looked at it until today.

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