All the driver settings and Qimage settings that we are working on today will magically reappear in the proper place and ready to print. Then we will learn to save that complete setup in Qimage, so you can recall it at the click of a mouse. Then we will tackle the other settings like Quality, Paper type, speed, etc. I am waiting for your confirmation that you have seen the screen snaps and have made it to that point OK. I know Ray means well, and is very knowledgeable, but let's get the system printing properly on good old Epson paper before we tackle the Hahnemuhle, and other expensive papers. I was pointing out that even if you have correctly installed the profile, other aspects are important, too. Afaik, you can not set paper type in Qimage, only in the printer driver -which you can open from Qimage). (you may not 'like' the result, however). Nothing is physically stopping you from printing using a monitor profile, for example. It does not know or care if you are using different paper, ink or printer, it does not set anything up for you. The icc profile is basically a colour conversion lookup table, it does not control anything else, other than the amount and colour of ink to be laid on the paper, sort of. In the same way, if you stick with Epson papers, you will not get the best results if you were to set the correct profile for glossy paper, but set the paper type in the driver to 'plain paper', say. It is exactly the same if you prepare your own profiles using, say profile prism, or purchase a profile, or use any profile provided by the paper manufacturer - you must use the correct paper type settings in the driver.
Subsequently it will be necessary for you to use the same settings for that paper type when you use the icc profile they provide when printing with that paper. If you purchase, say, a Hahnemuhle Photo Rag SATIN, then when you prepare a test print for the supplier to prepare an icc profile for your specific printer, they will tell you the settings for paper type, quality, etc, that are required to make that test print. This is critical if you are using other brands of papers. It is important that you set these correctly. However, the printer driver allows you to select other things too, such as quality, high speed, paper/canvas type, etc. If you set it in the printer driver, then you can not use qimage to soft proof the image (search qimage help for 'soft proof'.) You select the icc printer profile in one place only, either in the printer driver, or in qimage, as Fred and I mentioned.