Digital BW, The Print

Stephen,

The advice from Kennedy McEwan (who has studied this in some detail) on
another list is that if your ppi is below 240, you should upsample using PS
bicubic to 360 ppi. If it is above 480 ppi, you should downsample to 360
using PS bicubic. If it is between 240 and 480, you should leave it as it
is.

Nice and simple.  For desktop Epsons (that use 720 internally).

Large-format Epsons that use 360 internally, may need different advice.

Bob Frost.


>
> Stephen Kobrin wrote:
> > So, for those of us who are not as deeply into the technology as many
> > on the list, what is the "bottom line" here.  Is there any real
> > advantage to sending files to the Epson driver at precisely 360 dpi.
> > I tend to scan at the maximum resoulution for my LS-2000 which means
> > the resolution of files printed at 5X7 or even somewhat larger is
> > around 400 dpi.