Digital BW, The Print

Phil: I wasn't trying to establish what the native resolution was,
only to see if the prints looked any better. I previously thought it
was 360 until someone came up with some authorative support for 720.
It still appears to be a non issue as the prints look the same if sent
to the printer around 360 ppi or anything much larger. That was my
original supposition (i.e. most very high rez scans are unnecessary).

Bob Michaels 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Rose"
<pjrose@f...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
> <tyler@t...> wrote:
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels"
> > <bob@b...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I sent a 720 ppi file to my 1280 then resampled it to 360 and
printed
> > > it again. No difference to my naked eye...
> > 
> > Only the newer model Epsons have native res higher than 360, so there
> > wouldn't be.
> > Tyler
> 
> That's not true of desktop Epson printers, which I believe the 1280 is
> regarded as being. As I understand it (from an Epson Technical Support
> Bulletin) Epson has used 720 ppi as the native resolution for all
> desktop printers. Their large format (professional) printers--until
> recent models--were native at 360 ppi.
> 
> Anyway, the fact that one might not be able to discern differences in
> iamge quality (by comparing two prints) is not particularly relevant
> to the question of what the printer's native resolution happens to be.
> 
> Phil