Rather, it insists the image be placed fully within the printable page margin, so much so that it will actually resize an image automatically if you try to place an image which is larger than the chosen page size margin limits. Q1 appears not to have the option to do that. This 'feature' can sometimes have value, say for example, when printing an image that has 'canvas' margin in the image file sized to the document page already (thus extending slightly past the page margin limits). PS gives a warning but then lets you proceed. Another interesting difference between Q1 and PS is that PS will let you move an image around on the page or place an oversized image on the page such that some image area will clip due to the printer margin limitations. I'm not sure, however, as I haven't played with it long enough, how it handles special printer features like Gloss optimizer coverage.įor that, one might still have to dive into the weeds of the printer driver and force the 'default' driver setting to take care of all those more specialized settings. However, when working with multiple printers as I do, Q1 does have merit in that it provides a more seamless approach to setting all the various options one needs to normally set in the printer driver. Picture packages), so PS has always been a perfectly precise printer driver interface for me. I'm generally a 'PS manages color' kind of guy, usually printing a single image on a page at a time rather than multiple image layouts (e.g. If you are happy with the LR print module (I've never personally liked it) then Q1 may provide little benefit. It therefore handles the color conversion, sets the media settings, resamples for both sizing and optimal dpi, and lastly puts its own sharpening sauce into the file before sending the data to the driver. However, Q1 also enforces the printer driver default setting (i.e ignores any custom preset or 'last used settings' in the driver, and it lets you know when it has to change to the default), then apparently imposes/overwrites its own settings chosen in its own GUI into that default driver condition. Q1 hands off its image data conversions to the the printer driver with the customary OS/printer driver pipeline, IMO. To be clear, Q1 is providing application managed color, in much the same way as setting PS's 'photoshop manages color'.

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