Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Mark Roberts
Steve Cottrell wrote: >On 3/7/19, Postmaster, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>I do my printing with Qimage software which uses its own resampling >>algorithms to convert each image to the native resolution of your >>printer at the print size you're making. > >Mark, is this the software?? >

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 3/7/19, Postmaster, discombobulated, unleashed: >I do my printing with Qimage software which uses its own resampling >algorithms to convert each image to the native resolution of your >printer at the print size you're making. Mark, is this the software??

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-03 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 03.07.19 um 22:50 schrieb P. J. Alling: Kodak didn't care about making cameras really, they sold film which every camera needed, one of their engineers was once said to have remarked that the packaging of a 35mm film cartridge cost more than the film inside. If these cameras had been made

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-03 Thread P. J. Alling
I think they effectively do give them away.  Printer company's follow the Gillette company's or Kodak's old film marketing plan. Gillette gave away a moderately expensive razor and made their money selling the refill blades for more than they were worth, Kodak didn't care about making cameras

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The native resolution of most Epson printers since 2000 has been 1440 dpi (dots per inch). Dots per inch is not the same thing as pixels per inch (ppi) ... a dot is the size of of the minimum ink spot the printer can generate, but it take multiple spots of the discrete inks overlaid to achieve

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The native resolution of most Epson printers since 2000 has been 1440 dpi (dots per inch). Dots per inch is not the same thing as pixels per inch (ppi) ... a dot is the size of of the minimum ink spot the printer can generate, but it take multiple spots of the discrete inks overlaid to achieve

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Igor PDML-StR
I would guess that the odd number is to avoid it being a [higher] harmonic of something else (native resolution, spatial sampling frequency, ...) I've heard this type of advice to avoid aliasing-related artifacts. I have some intuitive feeling why that *might be* the case, but I don't

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Postmaster
John wrote: >When I was in school, they had iMacs and Epson Stylus Pro 4800 printers. We >were >advised to size our images to print at 360 ppi. That's because 360 is exactly half of 720, the native mechanical resolution of Epson printers (newer ones are double that at 1440) and 2:1

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread John
On 7/3/2019 14:34:05, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 3/7/19, John, discombobulated, unleashed: When I was in school, they had iMacs and Epson Stylus Pro 4800 printers. We were advised to size our images to print at 360 ppi. I've always sized mine at 300 ppi for printing... Cotty Same here,

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 3/7/19, John, discombobulated, unleashed: >When I was in school, they had iMacs and Epson Stylus Pro 4800 printers. >We were >advised to size our images to print at 360 ppi. I've always sized mine at 300 ppi for printing... Cotty -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread John
When I was in school, they had iMacs and Epson Stylus Pro 4800 printers. We were advised to size our images to print at 360 ppi. On 7/3/2019 13:03:20, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Just in case this information could be helpful (related to the suggestions by Mark and Godfrey): I've been printing

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Paul Stenquist
I too am printing from CS6 on an Epson 2880. But I’m on. Mac running no High Sierra. No problems over years of printing and hundreds of prints. Paul > On Jul 3, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > > Just in case this information could be helpful (related to the suggestions by > Mark

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 2/7/19, l...@red4est.com, discombobulated, unleashed: >In Lightroom I can print to a file, do you get the banding if you print >to a file rather than export to jpeg? I can print to a file in MS Office (on the printer dialogue, eg select 'PDF') but no such option in the CS6 printer dialogue.

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 3/7/19, Igor PDML-StR, discombobulated, unleashed: >PS. I wonder if Epson salt would be helpful for Epsom printers. :-) Haha! Yes :-) Thanks for the input Igor - will investigate. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) |Live Broadcast News --

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Just in case this information could be helpful (related to the suggestions by Mark and Godfrey): I've been printing from CS6 from a Windows computer (Photoshop ver 13.0 x64) on Epson R2880 without any problems related to banding. That's the version from "About Photoshop". So, I don't think

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-03 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Related to that is a very old joke, but a good one: A college physics professor was explaining a particularly complicated concept to his class when a pre-med student interrupted him. "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" The young man blurted out. "Physics saves lives," the professor

Re: OT: Chileans, Argentines gape at total solar eclipse

2019-07-03 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I doubt I can hang around that long. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 10:27 PM John wrote: > > > Oh, cool!. We get another good one here in the U.S. in April 8, 2024. > > https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024 > > > -- PDML

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-03 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 03.07.19 um 04:56 schrieb P. J. Alling: It may not be an engineer's fault. To me, the trouble appears to be that too many technical design decisions are nowadays made in marketing or controlling departments. I still insist that if ever there is a feature in which those Epson printers have

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-03 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 2/7/19, Postmaster, discombobulated, unleashed: >If none of those tricks works you'll probably have to either buy a new >printer or print from an app other than Photoshop (which you're >already doing). Nothing wrong with printing from a different >application. I never print directly from