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Re: [Digital BW] dpi and stuff

2004-11-13 by Tom Baker

>"...Thanks. So it really doesn't matter what I send to the printer, the printer
>will always upsample or downsample to 720 dpi. ..."
 
 
It does matter what dpi you send to the printer.  Usually 360 for 16x20 or so, and as low as 200 dpi for large prints.  If you send too low a dpi you will get inferior results in the final print.  There is some debate about this, but not much from a practical perspective.
 
Tom Baker




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