Digital BW, The Print

Austin,

QImage begs to differ! That program upsamples from whatever you have to 720
ppi (for small Epsons) in one go using Lanczos (so it doesn't have to be
resampled again in the driver), and they claim it is an improvement. I
haven't tried it yet. Has any one else and found it to be true?

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>


> 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...