Resolution and print quality

[john gale <john@smadness.com>]

Somewhat following up on this Resolution and Banding topic, I have a 
more general question on getting the maximum print quality from your 
friend neighborhood Epson.  So far, I've gotten advice that if you 
print over 720ppi then you should downsample to 720ppi to print, with 
the possibility that it **might** give you better results.  (hey, 
it's easy, so why not live with that possibility.)

But what about some more general things that I've heard people refer 
to, but am not quite sure how they might help / hinder?  In other 
words, what's the general process that people usually go through to 
get from a scanned image to a printed image?  Say I get a 4000ppi 
negative scan, and want to print a 5x7 from it.  This gives me 
roughly 800ppi, so I should scale it down to 720ppi.  But what about 
other things that might increase the quality of the print?  Should I 
sharpen / blur the image?  Should I smart blur to get a more 
continuous tone?


           !john
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