Re: Resolution and Banding

[john gale <john@smadness.com>]

>How are people getting these incredibly high resolutions images that need
>downsampling to 720ppi?
>
>Most people have been arguing for years as to whether we should upsample our
>images to get them up to 240 ppi or 360 ppi.
>
>I scan at 4000 ppi and print at A4 or A3 (8x10 or 11x16) and only get 480 or
>so ppi at A4 and 360 ppi at A3. And that's without any serious cropping.
>Wouldn't it be nice to have the luxury to throw away unnecessary pixels!
>
>Bob Frost.


that's mainly it, actually...  I was referring to a 4000ppi scan that 
prints only a 4x6 or 5x7.  It's wonderful, though, that you really 
can enlarge to 11x14 and greater without losing quality...



        !john
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