Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ed 
Mathews" <ed@l...> wrote:
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Does anyone
> know of a place I can download a test file for printing and 
testing the
> printer resolution?  snip

Try the resolution test file at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epson-inkjet/files/ (it is called 
Printer ResTest).  I found this somewhere or other on the web 
and made a few changes for color inkjets vs B&W laser printers. 
Does a fair job of comparing printers since it gives you a 
numerical index -- but only for full color inks (doesn't capture 
anything about the light color inks or about any ink printed at less 
than full intensity).  You should be able to change the 
transparency to find that info if it is important but that starts 
getting complex.   No one seems to have deleted it from the 
Epson Inkjest site files folder so it must still be usefull for 
something I guess.  There are 
instructions for opening the Illustrator file with Photoshop in the 
self extracting file or you can just use it in Adobe Illustrator. 
The 
original .ps file vesion is there as well but it only does black ink 
unless you change the color.

Personally  I don't use it any more -- if my eyes like the results of 
a print I don't worry about the actual resolution.  Then again my 
eyes ain't what they used to be either so maybe I should use it.  

Dan Culbertson
(just passing through)