Hi Bob, > I think you've missed my point. All images, whatever their ppi > (correct this > time, Austin)
I'm flattered, Bob ;-) >, printed on Epson inkjets are upsampled by the Epson driver, > unless they are already at the ppi which the driver requires (360ppi for > wideformat printers and 720ppi for desktop printers) whether you > like it or > not. So yes, upsampling may always result in some loss, but > there is no way > of preventing it other than sending your image at 360 or 720 depending on > your printer. Since I understand that the printer driver uses Nearest > Neighbour resampling - the poorest upsampling method according to > many - it > might be preferable to do the upsampling yourself with a better algorithm > such as Vector, Lanczos, Bicubic, etc and avoid having the > printer driver do > it with NN. An excellent point, one I'd like to hear more results from. I have heard, but have not tried, of people doing this. The claims I heard were that the image was improved...but of course, that's subjective, and will be quite image dependant. > People who think they are avoiding upsampling by sending their > image to the > printer as it comes are deluding themselves; the printer driver will > upsample it to 360 or 720ppi, come what may. One caveat...if someone is using a non-standard driver, like the Piezo B&W driver. Regards, Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
