Digital BW, The Print

wouldn't that be called "nearest neighbor interpolation" :)

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Colorado Light" 
<coloradolight@w...> wrote:
> That's not interpolation, it's just that a printer uses more than 
one dpi to
> make a ppi.  Your print still has just 220 ppi.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Hahn" <markhahn2000@y...>
> 
> > I find that I generally need at minimu 220ppi original image data 
to
> > get a good b&w print... with certain images and interpolation and
> > processing I can sometimes get away with much less.  300ppi seems
> > unquestionably good.  The Epson printer driver then interpolates 
up
> > to 720 so there might be something to sticking to fractions of 
that
> > or interpolating up to 720... but in the casual experiments I've 
done
> > using different interpolation schemes I have't seen any *real*
> > improvement which makes it worth the time (do the math... you can 
end
> > up with some huge files)... but others disagree.
> >
> > mark
> 
> 
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