Digital BW, The Print

thanks for all the info Steve.
Hey, how was that color management evening for a couple of hours of
clarity, eh?
I'm suprised people weren't running away screaming...
T

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Bye"
<steve_bye@c...> wrote:
>
> The newer Epson desktop printers, probably 1280 or later, are native 720
> dpi, but the Epson X600 wide format printers are native 360. I think
I read
> this in a FAQ somewhere on the Qimage homepage, but I can't find it
now. I
> like the fact that Qimage can apply "smart sharpening" after the
> interpolation to 720 dpi, which is not something I'd want to do in
Photoshop
> because of the file size. Qimage's advantage is less important for
the wide
> format printers since 360 dpi is not too much different from the
resolution
> of my original file.
> 
> In my tests I could detect a slight improvement in detail when using
Qimage
> to up-sample and then smart sharpen, but only with images that
really had
> very sharp detail. 
> 
> Regarding interpolation methods, here are three links which you may have
> already seen. 
> 
> http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/quality/
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/techcorner/January_2005.html
> http://www.ddisoftware.com/testpics/resample.jpg
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tyler
> Boley
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 3:20 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] qimage advice?
> 
> I'd like to do some experiments with the qimage demo to see if I like
> it and could use some input. Since I use StudioPrint all I will do is
> use it to process tiffs, then place them in the RIP. First of all, I
> was told the x600 printers were native 720dpi, no? I thought qimage
> reported back the printer native dpi, and it currently says 360x360
> for my 9600.
> Also, any advice you could give about the various scaling/sharpening
> algorythms would be a help, I'd like to limit my experimenting time.
> Basically, I'd just like to see if I can get better large prints from
> smaller format files. Is this worth playing with for that, or are
> normal Photoshop tools going to get me to pretty much the same place?
> Thanks,
> Tyler
> 
> PS- of course what I'm really trying to do is avoid reading the
manual...
>