Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Rose"
<pjrose@f...> wrote:
...
> That's not true of desktop Epson printers, which I believe the 1280 is
> regarded as being...

ANyone with a 1280 and Qimage could verify one way or the other very
quickly. I don't have it.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels"
<bob@b...> wrote:
> 
> 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).

This issue is confounded by the by the particulars of downsampling.
How the Epson driver downsamples vrs how you downsampled in PS may be
a factor. Sometimes it's better to start with 2 scans, one twice the
res of the other, resizing (NOT resampling) the smaller to 360 and the
larger to 720. They will be the same physical dimension on paper, and
how the printer deals with it will be the only issue.
If in fact the native res is 720, you may (or may not) see some
benifit with your original test by downsizing with Photoshop's newer
bicubic sharper mode. However if may be a mute point if you are
attempting to avoid large scans to begin with.
Ernst has reported superior resampling with Qimage for Epson printing,
over the driver itself.
Tyler