update: I tested again (on a local mamp-based install) and it looks like this is only an issue when running the plugin with the command-line imagemagick version.
when using the php module, all is working fine – when using the command-line variant though, hard-cropped image sizes are not resized via imagemagick but the standard gd library seems to be used (all other non-fixed-crop sizes are working via imagemagick command-line though).
as the plugin doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore, changing webhost and running a server with the imagemagick php module seems to be the only option.
-N.
Thanks for your answer, lookin forward to the next version of your plugin and will leave the already existing images on the server non-retina til then.
cheers
here’s a screenshot of one of the confusing rows..