Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gilbert: Thanks for your comments. I'm thinking about purchasing a Epson. In your opinion, at what dpi is there no improvement in image quality on this type of system? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] film scanner recommendation > on 5/22/01 12:27 PM, mdelman at mdelman@rochester.rr.com wrote: > > > Tina: > > > > Unless you are printing commercially, you are scanning at resolutions that > > are not likely to result in improvement in print output on a standard inkjet > > or digital minilab system. It's not that there's anything particularly > > wrong with a high resolution scan.... it's just it takes up so much space on > > your hard drive. Try printing out at various resolutions. I suspect that > > you can't see much difference above 300 or 600 dpi. > > > > -Mark > > Not true if one is printing with Piezography as Tina is. I found a big > difference between the Nikon LS 2000 (2700 dpi) and The Polaroid SS 4000 > when I started blowing them up to 13 X 19. Piezpgraphy works best with a > resolution works well with 360 dpi, but better with 720+ dpi. Granted this > is not "print output on a standard inkjet." > > Gilbert > >