After reading all of these thoughful replies, I concur that it may be psychological and/or physiological but I think it is physical as well as John suggests. I think when you scale down an image the detail in the large image spreads out a little bit taking up more space than it should and thus puts more ink on paper. For all of these reasons I will make test prints from a section of the image at full size like I do in the darkroom.
Thanks to all,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: John Vitollo
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:46 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Image Density vs. Print Size I'm with Bob on this one!
"bobphoto" wrote:
> I have come to the conclusion that when making a test print you have to take a section
of an image and print it full size rather than re-sizing the whole image to make a small
print. > Bob
I'm with Bob on this one! A few weeks ago I did a test print on my Epson 1200 loaded with
Fotonics. I wanted to test the new Kodak Ultra paper. I resized an 8x10 image in
Photoshop in the Print with Preview down to about 3x4 inches to place more than one
image on the paper. The print came out with the black ink area area all crackled - looks
like an orange skin - and thought "crap this paper is not compatible with Fotonics". But
decided to print a full size image and guess what? Made a fairly nice image and the black
areas were not crackled or blocked - had full detail and smooth surface.
Could be sizing down image increases the resolution to the point where the printer/driver
can not handle it.
John V.
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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Image Density vs. Print Size I'm with Bob on this one!
2004-04-13 by bobphoto