Digital BW, The Print

Scott McLoughlin wrote:

>Surely there must be some general rules of thumb outside of what
>Qimage can do automagically, yes?
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>BTW - what's Qimage? :-)
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>Scott
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www.ddisoftware.com
check the online manual at page 74 or near there.

I doubt you can use the same algorithms to compute it on all the fingers 
of your hand so rules of the thumb are quite inadequate for the job. But 
Bruce Fraser has written on the subject and the Photokit Sharpener 
software is based on his method. The third stage of sharpening is what 
you are looking for. As that software doesn't interact with the driver 
it has not the sophistication of Qimage's method.

There's a short explication what is needed for output sharpening in this 
Photokit review:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/pk-sharpener.shtml

I'm happy that Qimage takes that work out of my hands.


There are some articles with more details on the net.
-Bruce Fraser output sharpening- in Google should get you there.


Ernst