Digital BW, The Print

Is this hardware/firmware controlled or is it done by the Epson  
driver software?  Do 3rd party drivers (RIPs) such as Imageprint,  
ColorBurst, QTR, etc. also re-sample to 720ppi in small format  
printers and 360ppi in large format?

Carl

On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Sarah Thompson wrote:

> 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