Digital BW, The Print

What happens when you resample the image to accommodate some mythical PPI to
the printer is you degrade the image.  The printer dithering algorithm is
going to already resample the image simply to convert it to printer dots,
that's what dithering algorithms do.  Resampling the image yet another time,
as I said, degrades it.

The best you can hope to print is to scan your film at the optical
resolution of the scanner, resize it WITHOUT resampling, and let the PPI to
the printer fall where it may, and simply send it to the printer driver...

Hundreds, if not thousands of prints, by many many different people, over
many years, have shown this to be true.

Austin


>
> If you have the 2200 Grey Balancer and have a look at the included
> test files that print beautifully, you will see that their
> resolution is 240dpi. That is what I tend to use now, if it's good
> enough for Epson then it's good enough for me!
>
> Barry
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Austin
> Franklin" <darkroom@i...> wrote:
> > > A friend attended an Epson printing seminar over the weekend. One
> > > piece of most interesting information that he brought back is
> that
> > > there Is an optimal recommended printing setting : 360 DPI - a
> > > submultiple of 720/1440/2880. I always expected that but never
> ran any
> > > tests to confirm it.
> >
> > Yeah, but it's not true, and has been proven beyond a shadow of a
> doubt to
> > be not true many many times.
> >
> > Who gave the seminar?  Could you find out?  I'd like to discuss
> this with
> > them ;-)
> >
> > Austin
>
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