Digital BW, The Print

Hi Peter,

> > It appears that the limitation is in the driver, and
> > is the 30k divided by the resample resolution, and
> > has not a thing to do with the resolution you send it.
>
> That would certainly be a more sensible and natural way
> to do it.   With the amount of compute-ponies available in
> the average desktop PC these days, I cannot understand why
> they would resort to a simple-minded algorithm rather than one
> that took into account the actual input and output resolutions
> and tried to optimize for them.   ALWAYS resampling to the
> same fixed size makes about as much sense as doing pixel
> replication instead of some more sophisticated algorithm.

Sigh.  Having designed a few halftone system, and the associated algorithms
(and hardware), I am actually miffed that a company with the resources and
technology one would think Epson has would do such as is claimed.  In my
book, there is no need (nor is it desirable) to resample to a "fixed"
resolution.  I'm on the fence about whether nearest neighbor is good or bad,
as I seen reasons why it may in fact be good...given what they do.  But,
none the less, I certainly would have done things differently, which is
apparently what the Piezo driver does, and does quite well in my opinion.

And...I'm glad you also understand this.

Regards,

Austin