Digital BW, The Print

At 4:37 PM -0700 8/10/04, Allan Chen wrote:
>I'll do some testing with both my 35mm and MF scans.  Will see what happens...

I'll be very interested to hear what happens, Allan, and to peruse 
the Sachs calculator Steve posted in the meantime.

My intuition is that the most promising step to try below 240 scanner 
samples per printed inch is 180 "spi". If that takes too much RAM or 
something, I'd try 144 and then 120. But, at least with one of the 
best digital cameras, I think you might get away with 90 samples per 
printed inch for some very large images. Printing at 720 or 1440 dpi 
I assume. Each of those dpi's is a whole number multiple of all these 
spi's, and each of these spi's is divisible by three. But I don't 
know that either spec matters, much less that both do, jointly.
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Sam