Digital BW, The Print

> From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...]
>
> My question is as follows:  if the Epson desktop printers
> resample to 720ppi, is there
> any advantage to sending the printer images at 720ppi in the
> first place?  By this I
> mean either not downsampling below 720ppi (if enough pixels are
> available from, say,
> the scan to meet the required image dimensions at 720ppi) or
> using PS to do the up-
> sampling rather than the printer driver.  I am using an Epson 2100.

The resampling done by the driver may be dumb, but on most images it doesn't
matter. You may find an image that results in moire, if its resolution
doesn't divide evenly into 720, but I haven't yet. If you do, then you can
use PS to resample, because it will actually do interpolation.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...