I thought I’d look at the way the Epson 3880 and the driver resample images at 2880/1440 dpi. I took the now-familiar grating at 700 ppi, and resampled it in Photoshop using nearest neighbor. This is what I got: Then I printed a 700 ppi image using ABW. Here’s what it looks like: The pattern… [Read More]
Archives for January 28, 2011
Inkjet printing on Epson, part 2
I thought I’d compare the Epson driver’s color mode to the Advanced B&W (ABW) mode that I used in yesterday’s post. Here is the test grating at 360 ppi, printed at 2880/1440 dpi: Except for some color shifts that vary with gray level, it looks a lot like the ABW print. At 720 ppi, it looks like… [Read More]