Digital BW, The Print

>Hi Jerry,
>
>I wasn't aware of the MrSID product. From the looks of the Lizartech site,
>Genuine Fractals is toast! If you do get it, would you do a side by side
>test and
>let us know how the two compare?
>
>Thanks for bringing this to our attention here.
>
>Antonis

I thought MrSID was only a compression program and that the resizing was
only up to the original file size, but I really haven't checked it out
thoroughly. I also did not know it was lossless.

Nonetheless it is amazing. A great place to check it out is the online
Library of Congress Panoramic Maps Collection (part of their American
Memory site).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html

These maps are available for free download in the MrSID format. I
downloaded a map of my town and got the MrSID viewer, plug-in, or whatever
the free download is. I was stunned when the little file opened up in
Photoshop at a high resolution at full size (and in RGB). I converted to
greyscale and did a lot of restoration, then printed out with Piezography.
I just wish I had a larger printer than the 1160 for this one. I did print
the legend seperately so that I could go full width on the 1160 with the
map portion.

Several people continually sell prints of these files on eBay (to the
consternation of the Library).

Mark