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Why is it that when I go into certain menus in the printing module, Lightroom suddenly decides (without any relevant input from me) that the format should be A4, even though I have selected 10x15? I have wasted countless amount of ink/paper/time not catching this bug before pressing "print".
Why cant there be a single button that will use the selected paper, selected image, print to fill the paper (but not distort dimensions) at optimal quality. Isnt this what 90% of the users do most of the time? I don't care about dpi, I have lots of megapixels in the camera, and an A4 max printer.
If Lightroom offered softproofing, I would be a lot less hesistant to get a proper printer and proper profiles for it.
In line with the parametric approach of Lightroom, would it not make sense to keep track of both screen edits and print edits as one logical unit? I will typically turn knobs and push sliders until an image looks good to me on screen, then print, disappointment follows, and I will iterate N times printing/tweaking using display until I get a print that makes me happy, then delete all changes made for the print... If Lightroom in some magical way understood what changes was specifically for print, it could keep those separately, available at any time, and I could even have a look "across" all images to see if there was a pattern in how I tweaked good looking monitor images into good looking printer images.
Oh, and why did HP decide that my printer/scanner needed 120MB _drivers_ that needs security updates seemingly once a week, that force me to go down on my knees to click "accept" 2-3 times to navigate its no-good UI for no good reason, that lock up my Core2 PC for 30 seconds if I ever accidentally click any of the crappy applications that came with the drivers? My old HP 610 had a perfect user interface: none. I'll gladly pay $100 extra to _not_ have a built-in display, memory-card reader and "helpful" windows pop-ups in my next printer
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Ahhh. Feeling much better now.
-h