Digital BW, The Print

Hi,
I've always printed at 300ppi - occasionally at as little as 250ppi - but for memory, in QTR, I've always printed at 300ppi; I wondered if people find that QTR (as opposed to the Epson driver) handles lower ppi printing as well as the Epson driver - is there any perceived difference?

thanks,
Richard

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Conventional wisdom is to resize the image prior to printing to a 
resolution that is a simple fraction of the printer resolution. So for 
the Epsons that would be 360ppi. The theory is that photoshop could do 
a better job than the printer driver, that may cause resampling 
artifacts. So if you follow that path it would not make any difference 
whether you use the epsond driver or QTR. But I admit I've never seen 
such a thing (perhaps not looked closely enough...) and I have stopped 
bothering about it.

Joost


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Smallfield 
<r.smallfield@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've always printed at 300ppi - occasionally at as little as 250ppi - 
but for memory, in QTR, I've always printed at 300ppi; I wondered if 
people find that QTR (as opposed to the Epson driver) handles lower ppi 
printing as well as the Epson driver - is there any perceived 
difference?
>