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Re: laser printer for diginegs



The printer has a native resolution of 1200 DPI. What settings in Photoshop do you suggest? 300 DPI in the image size dialog? I've been working with the Epson 2100 inkjet printer with Quadtone RIP for digital negatives; inkjet printers seem to be the generally used devices for digital negative production.

Tom

davidhatton@totalise.co.uk wrote:


Hi Tom,

In what way horrible? Is the 1200dpi interpolated or native?

Davidh



On Aug 29 2009, Tom Kershaw wrote:

When I tried using an HP 1320n laser printer (1200 DPI) the image
quality was terrible.

Tom

davidhatton@totalise.co.uk wrote:
>
> Thanks Jim, for that. I think I can lay my hands on Dell in the UK.
> Any idea what the resolution is. Nice work by the way,
>
> Davidh
>
> On Aug 28 2009, Jim Larimer wrote:
>
> Hi, David....As Dan mentioned earlier, I print all of my negative using a
> laser printer. I have a very inexpensive Dell P1500 b/w printer. I do very
> little to the image before printing. For tri-color I usually boost the
> saturation a bit and for b/w images I play a bit with levels. Every image
> gets treated a bit differently, so I do not have a curve that I
> automatically load. My ink cost is negligible and my cost for each
> transparency is 36 cents.If you look at my wed site you see the the
> results
> that I get: http://larimerphoto.blogspot.com/
> Jim L
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM, wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I haven't had the printer quite that long. The cleaning process did
> > something to the heads so they just pour ink out. Like they've blown
> a seal
> > or something!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Davidh
> >
>