Digital BW, The Print

Wouldn't recommend a 1200 DPI scanner for 35mm. You'd never get the size
print you mention with good quality.  for 2 1/4, you might get by with
that scanner and GF.



Jerry





dogdrum7 wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone. My name is Tim Timmermans. Julian Thomas who I met on
> www.thesight.com told me about this forum. Thanks to Martin for
> hosting. I look forward to getting to know you and you me. I live in
> Los Angeles and am a Fine Art Photographer shooting mostly Landscape,
> Found Imagery, and some figurative.
> 
> I no longer have a wet darkroom so I've been working in the Digital
> Domain for about a year and a half. I have an Epson 2000P which I
> like but I'm still not happy with my print quality. I've been selling
> prints and have a few venues that want me to exhibit but I want to
> improve my prints before taking that step. I'm picking up an Epson
> 1280 tomorrow which I plan to dedicate to B/W. My intent is to go
> with a  nomorecarts CIS or MIS CFS (any preferences?), using MIS VM
> hextone inks. I'm stuck with an Epson Perfection 1200U Photo scanner
> for now so I'm looking at either Vuescan or Silverfast. (any thoughts
> there?) I'm also considering Genuine Fractals so that I can work with
> smaller files (currently in the 20-30mg range). Looking to print up
> to 13 x 19 as well as Pano images 13 x whatever so I hope to work
> small and print big if this is possible. (any advice?)
>