Digital BW, The Print

> >It might be good now to do the experiments over again using a 
> >totally different image (different type contrast, subject matter, 
> >focal length) just to see if the results hold true in general & 
> >not just for that one image.  

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Well that's just it. All this stuff is file and image dependent in my
experience. I personally am much more interested in what happens when
I take a 4000 or 8000dpi drum scan of a 35mm neg and take that up very
large. And for something like that I find the new CS2 Bicubic Smoother
to be quite good. The degree of contrast in your original file is also
very important. Cheap digital cameras are crude in that regard.

I don't think Adobe would have gone to all the trouble they did to
release the new Sharpening tools if they were not a significant
improvement over traditional Bicubic interpolation. It's all relative
to the file you start with. 

John