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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-28 by Austin Franklin

> It certainly sounds like it from that technical bulletin.
> I wonder what they mean by large format?

Easy to tell.  If it resamples to 720, your maximum print length is ~44",
and if it resamples to 360, max print length is ~88".

> Are 2200's and
> 1280's considered desktop or large format?

I would assume desktop.  Even the 3000 is desktop, as it has a max length of
44".

> Assuming they do resample, the next question is what is
> their resampling algorithm?

Someone said it was "nearest neighbor".

Austin

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