Archives for 2011

I imported the 240 ppi printing target from the previous post into Lightroom and printed it to the 3880, selecting 360 ppi as the print resolution. Here’s what I got: The trees are fuzzier then the Photoshop bicubic example in the previous post. The letters are much fuzzier. The two lines with single pixel spacing… [Read More]

Before moving on to optimum resampling strategies in practice, which is where I’m going with this Epson printer testing, I thought I’d take a look at what happens with the 3880 at 1440/720 dpi resolution and “finest detail” unchecked. I used ABW mode, and the same paper as for the other tests. The first thing… [Read More]

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]

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]