From: Larry Roohr (lrryr@home.com)
Date: 01/01/01-12:12:02 PM Z
Nick,
Piezography is both inks and a proprietary printer driver that is advertised
at 2160 dpi, it is certainly 'dot'-less in the highlights.
I just send it the dpi I end up with after resizing, havnt had to upsample
yet, the image I've offered for swap is at ~500dpi at ~12x18" output. It was
scanned @1k dpi on a flatbed off an 8x10 copy neg of a 4x5 original. The
guys at Cone's claim no preference for dpi other than more is better with a
diminishing return in there somewhere.
The best printer for Piezo is the Epson 1160 which can be had at
www.refurbdepot.com for 185$ as a refurb, I think they're going for ~$300
new. Epson warranty's these for the full year so if there is anything wrong
they'll send you a new one.
One point thats been being made on the piezo list lately is that there is no
slack here for in camera originals, all the same rules for quality apply. I
read the same thing recently in John Paul Capinigro's book, digital unsharp
masking wont give you what accutance in your film does for you, etc..
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Makris" <nick@mcn.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: Piezography
> Larry and Peter, Which printers are you using? Also, what is the optimum
> resolution of the files you are printing. My understanding from Epson and
> others (much discussed on this list) is that an Epson 1440 DPI printer,
> prints most precisely with images at 360dpi. Is there anything to discuss
> here?
>
>
> Many Thanks,
>
>
> Nick
>
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