Digital BW, The Print

George,

Thanks for the info. 16X20 would be more than enough for me since my 
Epson 1200 is limited to 13" wide paper and my standard print size 
has been 11X14 for years. For a show or a special occassion I could 
always have a few negs drum scanned and sent out for 7000 output.

I hate to walk away from my investment in the Linoscan 1400 but I 
don't feel the 1200dpi quite makes it. I tend to get hypercritical 
over print quality and I think the jump up to 1600 dpi would be worth 
the extra cost. Any opinon on using their 1600 x 3200 dpi with Micro 
Step Drive?

Martin 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "George DeWolfe" 
<dewolfe@m...> wrote:
> 
> Martin
> 
> My experience is that the 1680 makes files from 4x5 B+W 
> negatives that can go to 16x20 in Piezography on the Epson 
> 3000. I have a friend, Dana Strout, who uses an Epson 1640xl 
> (nearly identical, and 2x the price of the 1680) with 11x14 
> negatives and he can go to 22x36+ on the 7000 with prints that 
> are beautiful. My reason for getting the 45 Ultra was that I felt 
that 
> I could not go to 24 inches x ? on the 7000 with the 1680 file. Of 
> course, you can do it, but I'm really hard on print resolution, 
and, 
> to me, the 1680 can't get that high(24 inches x??).
> 
> George