After years of saving Photoshop images as flattened TIFFs and then printing with Image Print 6 to my Epson R2400, I am really loving printing directly from LR 2.6 to my new Epson 3880 using canned profiles to print to Epson Exhibition Fiber, Ilford Galerle Gold Silk and various RedRiver papers.
The process is now streamlined, the results are excellent and the increase in printing speed is appreciated.
Wow! Look how far we have come in just a few years!
I tried the beta recently, but it had too many bugs for my liking on my MacPro 8-core running SL 10.6.2. I can't wait until the release of LR 3.0 with the enhancements it brings.
Cheers.
Bud