> Hi Jorge - hah! Please re-read (decrypt?) my two posts on this part of the > subject...but yes, this is what I was saying (although perhaps not as > coherently as you put it).
Decrypting messages always takes time in my tiny brain, but I have thought all this time that an STN or any flavor-of-the-day file is not a proper example to discuss printing of non pixel files, since in formal terms it is not a "native" file, in the sense that it is a mathematical construct created from pixel data, and this again introduces the subjective variables provided by the content in the pixel file,not to mention the quality of the pixels themselves, depending on the source( scanner or camera). On the opposite side of the ring, the pure vector file may stand or brake at one particular resolution, ( as it happens with rasterised fonts) and this may still be poorly related to images, precisely for the same reason. It's two different animals. I suggested an illustrator file for the printer resolution test as an option to STN , but we have to accept beforehand that tests will throw results that may or may not help at all. IMHO, At the very end, subjective evaluation will still be king and I am glad of this. I will soon be running some tests with 180 dpi files from camera, ( 1,6x LPI) in real printing, to verify other colleague's claims on the viablity of this method and will be happy to report when I have these tests done. Jorge Parra =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
