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Some years ago, and even before the beginning of the Adobe Lightroom era, I used the Windows QImage software for my prints on a LargeFormat inkjet printer, more precisely the HP Z3100 model.
Even then, I regretted that this software was not available for Mac OSX at that time, so I printed first from a virtual machine with OSX installed, and later via a separate Windows XP PC, on which Xrite Profile Maker 5 was also running. This was because at that time, after an OSX update it was no longer possible to communicate directly with the XRite hardware.
Already at that time, the print results with QImage were convincing; the internal scaling algorithm gave especially good results, which were not i...

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