I use as dedicated PC for printing some of my sublimation products, very low powered but good enough for Win7/Photoshop 6. I attached a second printer and found that swicthing between the 2 printers was incredibly slow in Photoshop.
I'm a huge fan of Linux so started on another journey to see if I could switch to that for my printing. Long story short no I can't so back to Windows.
Whilst looking for Linux solutions I found Qimage. Incidentally I did manage to install on Linux Mint using Wine but drivers were an issue.
I've now setup the 14 day free trial of Qimage Ultimate on a couple of PC's and have been using for the last couple of days.
I have to say I'm really impressed. The interface took a little getting used to but I do like it now.
Qimage for those who havn't seen it is basically a print management program and takes care of usual paper sizes, settings, profiles etc.
I quickly set up my A5 & A4 paper sizes and 2 seperate printers. Switching between the 2 is instant. Setting up to use the sublimation profile was also very easy.
Print results are spot on. I have lots of settings to explore that could improve the images further but even out of the box results are great.
For anyone looking for a Print only system to print out ready made designs this is ideal. no need to install clunky Photoshop/Corel etc. just to print.
It also comes with Plug-Ins so you can print from Adobe etc. if you want.
Deffo worth a look and a play, hopefully folk will find it as useful as me. Current price is around £60, no silly monthly subscriptions here
