Digital BW, The Print

Hi George,
After my qs to the list re what to do with an epson 1680, I've now got your
article from Camera Arts. I have 2 questions: why do you say that it is
important not to allow the scanner software to set a size, but to output at
100% and resize in GF? Also why is Silverfast so vital as opposed to
something like Vuescan?
I normally use only BW 35 film (now changing), printing to Piezo. I scan at
4000dpi 16bit 'raw' and allow Vuescan to give me a file sized at about 12in
max width (about a 20meg file). I then save in GF and up or down the size
slightly from there. I used to use an older version of Silverfast (which I
paid for!!) but wasn't happy with the raw scans.

Julian
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