Digital BW, The Print

Frank, you've inadvertantly stirred up more bandwidth waste than you
wanted. 

Some easy answers, maybe they work for you:

1) It's often said that bicubic in CS is reliably better for "general
use" than Genuine Fractals, but this may compare bicubic to old GF
releases (just a suspicion). 

2) To compare bicubic (which you have if you have CS) with Lancosz and
a variety of similar applications, the cheapest way is with Qimage.
http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/ 

Qimage suffers constant updates and it's not intuitive. The front end
is user-unfriendly but the documentation's well written. It should be
much more popular. Using Qimage and Lancosz I've had amazingly good
results at 18" with scans of 35mm negs that look terrible as
"straight" inkjet prints at 11". Beyond my comprehension :-)


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "frankg_photo"
<fh.gross@s...> wrote:
>
> any thoughts on whether it's better to use Bicubic Smoother or Genuine 
> Fractals (PrintPro) to enlarge files from a digital camera ?
> 
> The idea of course is to be able to print larger images at the epson's 
> favoured 360dpi 
> 
> thanks
> Frank
>