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Re: [Digital BW] Digital contact prints

2007-07-17 by Sarah Thompson

Bob Frost wrote:
> Sarah,
>
>   
>> I think there must be a slight difference between the 2400 and the 4800
>> drivers
>>     
>
> According to Epson, all their desktop printers (including R2400) resample 
> images to 720ppi in the driver. Large format printers (3000 upwards) 
> resample to 360ppi normally, but recent models apparently have the option of 
> resampling to 720ppi, which is what the Fine Detail checkbox gives you. So 
> it's not needed on the R2400.
>
> Bob Frost.
>   
Aha, mystery solved. It makes a lot of sense actually, since not many 
source images have anything like that resolution when scaled to the 
sizes normally printed on the larger printers.

Thanks for that,
Sarah

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