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Re: [Digital BW] Scan resolution for printing 4x5 negs?

2005-03-12 by Bob Frost

Andrei,

Actually it has been proven that some people with good eyesight can see 
improvements in prints up to 600 ppi:-

http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/printer-ppi/index.html

and

http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html

Bob Frost.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <aderca@...>

250 to 300 dpi is pretty much considered a standard for
good resolution files that you send to the printer (so after
you scan at 1600 dpi, you can enlarge sufficiently to get
down to 250-300). I doubt very much that you can see
a difference between a 300 dpi file and a 600 dpi sent
to the printer, regardless of the caliber of the output machine.

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