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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Scan Resolution for a 4X5 Black and White Negatives

2008-09-22 by Ernst Dinkla

> 
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:23 PM, ag000002002 <a.goldberg@...> wrote:
> 
>>   You are right, those were the output resolutions.
>>
>> For a 12x18 print, the service bureau offers:
>>
>> 100 dpi (1200x1800) which is a 6 MB file;
>> 200 dpi (2400x3600) which is a 25 MB file; and
>> 300 dpi (3600x5400) which is a 56 mb file.
>>
>> I am wondering whether these desktop printers I mentioned (Epson Photo
>> 2200 and 2400) can use all the information in the big files?

Yes, it looks like they scan the 4x5 at 1200 PPI in best 
case. One wonders if that actually is done on a drum scanner 
then.


-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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