Digital BW, The Print

Hi Victor,

Where did this come from? I have certainly never heard of this, and 
there is no hardware sharpening going on. What the Minolta driver does I 
neither know nor care. Having said that, I would take issue with the 
flat claim that "Sharpening should always be applied as the last step 
after image sizing and before printing.". We use Photokit Sharpener, 
which is a 3 step sharpening workflow. These steps are capture, creative 
and output, and when used with Photoshop CS allow sharpening via layers 
on 16 bit files. The output sharpening is certainly applied after final 
sizing, but the capture is applied after spotting and any noise 
reduction, and the creative is optional and can be used at any time.

Cheers,

Colin

http://www.travelling-light.com/

Victor Landweber wrote:

> Randy, Colin, et. al. --
> 
> I also looked at the Minolta when deciding about a scanner purchase. I read 
> that the Scan Multi Pro always sharpens a scan, even when it seems you've 
> disabled sharpening in software. It may be that  a sharpening routine is 
> built into its hardware or into its driver, but it this is the case it is 
> so serious a limitation as to eliminate the Minolta from further 
> consideration. Sharpening should always be applied as the last step after 
> image sizing and before printing. Otherwise you will find yourself 
> manipulating, and likely exaggerating, the inevitable artifacts produced by 
> sharpening -- doubtlessly detrimental to your images.
> 
> -- Victor Landweber
>