David, you'll get excellent 12x12 prints from 120 negs with that scanner. You can print photographs at 240 DPI. 300 DPI is a little sharper. Beyond that, you can't tell much difference. I always
scan everything at the maximum OPTICAL resolution, and leave it set that way always. In your case this would be 1600 DPI. Then just set your file size for either 240 or 300 DPI at the size you want
to print. But DON'T resample the image to a lower DPI. Someday you might want to print a larger print, and once the data is gone by resampling, you can't get it back.
Set the printer at 1440 DPI for maximum quality
> Jerry
>
> A cis system is in the works I wanted to play around with quadtones some
> before I jumped in. As regards the dpi figures...I gather that I can
> expect some pretty nice 8 x 8 prints from my medium format negs(6x6) at
> 1600 dpi. That leads to another question, should I print from a 8 in x 8
> in 400 dpi image or, once I have the image, should I resample until the dpi
> is closer to the print dpi of 1440? I'm not sure I'm articulating that
> question clearly...
>
> thanks
>
> david
>
> At 06:21 PM 2/28/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi David,
> >
> >A. Get a CIS system and forget cartridges.
> >
> >you need about 2700 DPI or so for a really sharp 7x10 inch color print, so
> >a scan at 1600 dpi would not give you optimum sharpness. 1600
> >should give you a sharp 5x7.5 print. You can upsample to an 8x12, but it
> >won't be nearly as sharp as if you scanned it at 2700 DPI. 4000 DPI
> >would be even sharper, of course, which most of the new 35mm scanners can
> >easily do.
> >
> >If you are going to use pigment archival inks, they do not work well on
> >glossy or semi glossy papers.
> >
> >Jerry
> >
> >
> >
> >david verba wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm a relative newcomer, having just received my first batch of mis vm inks
> > > that I'm running on a 1280. I had a couple or three initial questions that
> > > I didnt find ready answers for.
> > >
> > > 1)Are there any recommended gloss or semi gloss papers?
> > > 2)What are some guidlines for acceptable dpi. Scanning from 35mm negatives
> > > at 1600 dpi, what's a reasonable enlargement size to hope for?
> > > 3)I noticed on the mis site, it recommends only using brand new cartridges
> > > if you swap back and forth between epson and mis inksets(or mis and mis
> > > inksets) or the printer could lose prime. Has anybody actually had
> > > problems with this?
> > >
> > > Any information would be greatly appreciated...
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > -david
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