Digital BW, The Print

Hi Kevin,

You are correct. Actually, the scanned image is 100MB which, of course, is
significantly larger than 17MB. I'm going to play around with downsampling
the scan and see what I see in same size comparisons.

Alan Huntley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Gulstene" <kevin@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] digital


> Alan-
>
> If I understood the description of your method correctly, the image
> dimensions of the scanned image is much larger than that of the digital
> image (19meg vs couple hundred meg).  If you view each at the pixel
> level you cannot make a direct comparisons.  The one viewed at a higher
> magnification will look less sharp have more apparent grain etc.
>
> If you are trying to compare the sharpness of a page of printed text
> from a typewriter with one from a laser printer it wouldn't be
> reasonable to use a loupe to view one and the naked eye to view the
> other.
>
> As Martin said, the print is the real test though, Prints from both
> would likely be very good and the difference lost on the average print
> purchaser.
>
> --
> Kevin