Hi! MJ> Tom Graywolf,
MJ> Sorry to start a new thread, but given my temporary enforced absence from MJ> the PDML Digest I've literally lost the old one. MJ> When you compared the 14-mp Kodak print to one of your chemical prints, what MJ> printer and printer driver were you using to make the digital print? MJ> Not trying to ambush you here, so I'll just make my point straight up: all I MJ> wanted to add was that if you're not using a 6-ink printer and a good MJ> printer driver, you can't really make a sensible comparison. MJ> People don't pay enough attention to printer drivers. I have Canon MJ> ImageBrowser, Olympus Camedia, and Adobe Photoshop Elements, and if I print MJ> the same file in all three programs, the Elements print is _much_ sharper MJ> and more detailed, because the Adobe printer driver is so superior. MJ> --Mike There is no imaginable reason why any Win app, even as mighty one as Adobe PhotoShop (Elements) has to have its own driver for printer. Come, you don't want Adobe programmers actually dead, do you? On the other hand, Mike, you probably meant to say that the way Elements render image for printing is much more pleasing to an eye than, say if you were to print it from within Internet Explorer. Just to make a strong example. There is some other point that I'd like to add to this, if I might. A friend of mine has Epson 2450 scanner that he uses as a film scanner. He told me every now and then that he had to struggle somewhat with the scanner in order to get repeatable and nice looking to his eyes results. One day, he took a plastic slide frame and broke it into film holder that would fit the scanner. To his amazement, he got much better and almost totally repeatable scans. Naturally, it had to do with placement of the film and its flatness. That's exactly the problem with these variables. You have to perfect all the technicalities of every stage in order to achieve maximum quality. It seems to me that with digital there're less things to perfect. The downside is a certain loss of flexibility. Relatively OT: I thought that Mike was using single messages format, not the digest... <g> Another OT thing: Why don't you use smilies? Such as :) or :(. And where is a glossary of <>'s, such <g> or <vbg>? --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
