Originally Posted by
Ed Richards
Unless that is a professional flatbed, you are may be wasting your time and computer memory working at 2400 DPI. I use a well tuned consumer flatbed, but I down sample every file to about 1800 DPI, which is the real resolution. (I scan at 4800 for noise reduction, have Vuescan reduce the file to 2400, and go to 1800 in PS using bicubic sharpening.) Cuts the file size in half from the 2400, and the extra size is not really extra resolution. I use Qimage to generate the print files, because it has a great engine for resizing and doing output sharpening. It generates a file that matches the native resolution of the printer so the printer does not have to interpolate. Of course, if you really want to work efficiently, do black and white - cuts down the file size by 2/3s.:-)
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