Digital BW, The Print

"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."

Thanks, that's what I thought. But why would I send 360 dpi for 16x20 or so
prints and "as low as 200 dpi for large prints"  (assuming that by "large"
you mean larger than 16x20)?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Baker" <tbaker1328@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] dpi and stuff



>"...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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