On 30 Nov 2004 at 16:58, Bruce Dayton wrote: > Now I am going to have to do a little experimenting. I'll let you > know of my findings. One thing I do recall is that the D-Lab prints > at 400 dpi rather than the common 300 dpi of the Frontiers.
Hi Bruce, I tried to send you an email off list yesterday but unfortunately I got the big bounce, the essence of which was: I have produced a test image based on a 1:1 crop of a *ist D image processed in PS CS RAW with minimal sharpening at an output res of 4096x2734 px. It also contains a matrix of the crop sharpened with various settings plus a reference image and MacBeth colour checker reference. I sent it to my printer and they are pumping out a series of prints for me at no cost with and without borders at 12x8 and 18x12 on gloss and matt papers, I should have the results by Monday I guess. The print using PS and the machine isn't set up any special way however it's a bit of black box to the lab it seems. In any case they were impressed with the test image and it may have enlightened them a little, apparently one print is pretty scrappy after being passed around to all the staff :-) If you (or anyone else) would like a copy please let me know, it's about 4.5MB. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
