My previous testing at 2880/1440 dpi didn’t show much more resolution than printing at 1440/720 dpi, but I thought I’d print out the resampling target sampled to 720 ppi with the printer driver set to 2880/1440 dpi to see if the smoothness was improved. I picked the “Finest Detail” option to force resampling to 720… [Read More]
Resampling for printing with QImage
John Schwaller and others have recommended a program called QImage for resampling images for printing. I bought a copy – it’s only 90 bucks – and tried it out. The program works sort of like a RIP, but without actually doing the rasterizing, since it only accepts files that are already rasterized. You can import… [Read More]
Resampling for printing in Lightroom
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]
Resampling for printing — basic alternatives
After a couple of false starts, I created the following test image for resampling tests: The test image has a smooth gradient in the upper left corner, a series of lines at two tones and two angles in the lower left corner, two characters of Zone V antialiased text, and a crop from an actual… [Read More]
Inkjet printing on Epson, part 4
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]
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