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Re: Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Roy Harrington <roy@harrington.com>

... running ... go ... Hi John, That s correct. Gimp-print together with Cups is a Unix only option. That means Mac OS X, Linux, and any other unix you port

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Re: Black only printing on a Canon S750

2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

Hello Johnny, ... Good show. Sounds like you re well on the way. Good luck on the refills! ... What is the back end setting? Regards, Clayton Info on black

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Re: Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by johngeyles <jge@cs.unc.edu>

... Could you tell us a little more about this gimp-print ? It looks like it only works under Unix, or under Mac OSX (which of course IS UNIX). Is there no

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Re: Black only printing on a Canon S750

2003-02-11 by jeades947 <jeades1@sc.rr.com>

Duh, how dumb can I get? I checked all the printer settings and found one crucial one that I failed to have changed. I was giving it paper profiles instead of

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Re: Musings

2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

... ROFL!!! Regards, Clayton Info on black and white digital printing at http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

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Re: When will we get simple, reliable BW

2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

Hello John, ... Well said, John. These are important points, and a good reminder that we are (hopefully) artists first. Thanks for bringing this into the

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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

... Let me elaborate on that. The Leafscan 45 (and the 35) scan B&W as grayscale. Every other scanner scans B&W as RGB. There are issues with scanning in

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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

Hi John, ... You are ABSOLUTELY correct. ... That has been a bone of contention for some as to how I do my workflow. I do NOT sharpen. The scanner I use,

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Re: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by johngeyles <jge@cs.unc.edu>

... and I ... image gets ... or so, ... beyond ... So, it sounds like you send the full-rez image to the printer regardless of what size you re printing at;

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Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Thomas Keesling

... Austin and Jerry, Isn t this improvement that we see at higher resolutions printer dependent? I haven t done the comparisons between the two, but I suspect

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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

Bob, ... What is a large Epson , and what do you mean internally ? That would be a property of the driver, not the printer. And, at least for me, 360 would

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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

... Hi Bob, Possibly, and possibly not. That could merely be an upper limit to data that it uses. I know the Piezo driver stops at 720, so if you send it

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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

Hi Bob, ... I remember someone posting something of the such, but the test patterns I saw didn t prove the claim (if that is the same thing they are talking

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Epson 2200 RIP

2003-02-11 by sanfo2003 <SandyCornelius@cox.net>

Epson America has the 2200 RIP in stock now and I ordered one. Supposed to be here Thursday. Hopefully I ll be able to make a post this weekend concerning

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Re: [Digital BW] Musings

2003-02-11 by Julian Thomas

... How about I told you that you don t understand me - its all about 255 shades of grey... Julian

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Musings

2003-02-11 by sanfo2003 <SandyCornelius@cox.net>

I had a rather nasty argument with my girlfriend last night and during the conversation she observed, You re so insensitive, everything is always black and

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Re: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Bob Frost

Austin, Here is a reply from Kennedy McEwan on the x7x list on the same subject. He seems to believe (has proved?) that the Epson driver upsamples to 720 or

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Re: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Bob Frost

Austin, Doesn t the fact that Epson state that their drivers work internally at 360 ppi for large-format and 720 ppi for desktop, suggest that this IS the way

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Re: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Bob Frost

Austin, QImage begs to differ! That program upsamples from whatever you have to 720 ppi (for small Epsons) in one go using Lanczos (so it doesn t have to be

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Re: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Bob Frost

Austin, Since the large Epsons use 360 ppi internally, why shouldn t one say that sending 360 ppi is optimal ? It avoids the driver doing any upsampling of

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RE: [Digital BW] Re: Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

Hi Roy, ... Thanks for the info! I d like to see more about why they do it that way. How have you found the dither, with respect to quality...compared to the

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RE: [Digital BW] Optimal DPI

2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin

Hi Alex, ... No shots fired...though this myth keeps popping up it s head up every now and then... ... Testing this (or anything in question) out for your self

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