But at 1000 ppi or even 2000, it's far too small to make a good 11 x 14 or 11 x 17. For a good sized print, you wold need the 4000 ppi. At 2000, I would guess you could make a barely adequate 8 x 10 or 8 x12. Paul On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Doug Franklin wrote:
> Timothy Sherburne wrote: > >> Frankly, I'm doing this to get older images into digital format to >> share >> with friends and family. I don't need fine-art quality, but clean, >> color-balanced scans that accurately represent the original image >> with a >> minimum of fuss would be nice. Anybody know of a decent service >> for this? > > I have a Canon Canoscan FS4000US, and I use the Canon software, or the > Canon TWAIN driver through Photoshop 7. At its highest resolution of > 4000 ppi, I have to deal with a lot of "grain aliasing" or "grain > noise" > or whatever you want to call it. If I turn the resolution down to > 2000 > ppi, or especially 1000 ppi, I find that I can just take the scans > direct from the scanner, crop off ten or twenty pixels of overscan all > around, and I'm done. The FS4000US has been fabulously color > "matched" > using the sRGB color space from the moment I pulled it out of its box. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
