Printing program

[georgie]

Hi all,

Up until now have only printed about 1% of my photos I have taken. Now I am looking at printing more and was wondering if there are any suggestions for good printing programs?

I have been using Canon's EasyPhoto Print because this is what came with my S50 at the time and found it easy to use with good results.

I have heard Qimage is the way to go?? Any other suggestions? I am mainly printing 4 photos to an A4 page or 2 photos to an A4 page.

[stubbsy]

Georgie

I've been printing pics for some years now and still keep coming back to the Canon software (although I updated to PhotoRecord 2.2, ZoomBrowserEx 5.0). It's biggest drawback is that it can't read NEF files so I just convert them to TIFF before printing using either NC or Nikon View. If I want quick and dirty printing or I want to print EXIF data (aperture, shutter speed etc) I use Nikon View.

[jethro]

ive been printing at home straight out of acdcee 7.0 lately. no problems at all

[the foto fanatic]

I use Qimage and I think it is excellent.

However, it does not have RAW support for the D70, and reading the support site, may not ever have it.
Currently I am converting to JPEG max before printing, but I am going to experiment with converting to TIFF instead.

Qimage does a superb job with:

multiple prints on 1 page
sizing pix to your paper
printing multiple images

and their support is really good, too.

[georgie]

Georgie

I've been printing pics for some years now and still keep coming back to the Canon software (although I updated to PhotoRecord 2.2, ZoomBrowserEx 5.0). It's biggest drawback is that it can't read NEF files so I just convert them to TIFF before printing using either NC or Nikon View.

Thanks Stubbsy - do you use these to print instead of EasyPrint? Are they any better?

[georgie]

I use Qimage and I think it is excellent.

However, it does not have RAW support for the D70, and reading the support site, may not ever have it.
Currently I am converting to JPEG max before printing, but I am going to experiment with converting to TIFF instead.

Qimage does a superb job with:

multiple prints on 1 page
sizing pix to your paper
printing multiple images

and their support is really good, too.

I was playing around with this last night - When I try to set my page to A4, it converts it to inches and therefore makes it a little smaller than it actually is.

Is there a way of printing 4 pictures to a page, making them fit the entire page and borderless? I can do this with the Canon software, but in Qimage I only seem to be able to make the pictures 4*6 or 4*5 as a default size?

[Matt. K]

Qimage is outstanding...not for its ease of use, but for the quality of the print it produces. Nothing comes close. It does occasionally hang up and freeze and it does take some getting used to the interface....but it prints like nothing else.

georgie
size your prints up...select A4 and drag and drop the 4 prints onto the page. That should take care of it.

[stubbsy]

Georgie

I've been printing pics for some years now and still keep coming back to the Canon software (although I updated to PhotoRecord 2.2, ZoomBrowserEx 5.0). It's biggest drawback is that it can't read NEF files so I just convert them to TIFF before printing using either NC or Nikon View.

Thanks Stubbsy - do you use these to print instead of EasyPrint? Are they any better?

Yes I do. Photo Record 2 allows you to rotate and scale individual images and place them wherever you want them on the page. You can also play with page backgrounds, image borders and text. Check this link: http://www.photorecord.com/v2/en/home.html

And I got them for free using the updater for ZoomBrowser here