Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22
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Your numbers don't make sense to me. Don't you enlarge your scan to make
prints?
If I scan a negative at 600 dpi, I have to enlarge it by a factor of 8 to
fill the 8x10" print. That works out to 600/8 or 75 dpi on the print. It's
not hard to tell the difference between a 75 dpi print and one at 600 dpi.
At 2700 dpi (the max for my scanner) I get 2700/8 = 334 dpi on my 8x10.
That's still less than half of what the printer can produce. Bring on the
4000 dpi scanners. I can use them tomorrow!
Mike Quinn
mdelman wrote:
> 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.