Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Bob, that is clear as a bell and makes sense, at least to me.

Steve
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost" 
<bobfrost@b...> wrote:
> 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.