I would like to digitize my old 35mm negatives, play with them in Photoshop, and then print the best. What size prints will it do well?
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I just checked a slide and it scanned at 3072x4608 pixels. I have been very pleased with the resolution.
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I am able to print beautiful 13 x 19 prints with this printer. I only use Epson paper and inks. They frame well and are archival. I love this printer except for smaller sized paper which does not feed reliably. I thinbk you should be satisfied with the quality of the work it produces.
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I would guess you could scan any negatives smaller than 35mm. You would need to use a photo editing program to clean it up and if part of another picture showed up cut it out.
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it will only print 4 x 6" photos. I am still using mine after 2 years, but it does take quite a bit of ink. Only use for small amt. of photos.
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yes, unless you are blowing the pictures up to about 36"x48" then you won't be able to notice any difference, given you're not looking at it from 2 inches away. anything higher than 6-8 megapixel will give you a decent print out up to 11x17. so don't worry too much about the upgrade in megapixels.
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Yes, it will work just fine. They do really good with converting standard size images to a bigger canvas, but the better the picture the better it will turn out. I was really happy with the way mine turned out. I used a picture that was a little fuzzy and the canvas looked a little fuzzy like the picture, but the quality was great besides that.
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I would use it for that. The machine is super fast, and it's pretty impressive how accurate it is in sizing and framing whatever it is you're scanning. I haven't used it for scanning pictures, but I wouldn't hesitate to start.
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I'd shoot in the highest format you can according to how much your card can handle, then crop down to the print size you want or down to 1080 for viewing on your TV. Realistically, though, if you're going to be taking a ton of photos a smaller size will help with hard drive storage in the long run.
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Hi Wally, Yes you can, but the quality will not be as good. You can also scan the photo. Either way, you will need to rezize to 800 x 600 and lower the DPI to 72. Here is a great link for you: https://nix.zendesk.com/entries/22222492-How-to-Re-Size-Photos-for-your-Digital-Frame
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I think if you adjust your image size as you wish, then print to a larger sized standard paper (like 13x19 or 14x17), you'd get what you need. You'd have to trim the excess, of course. A bit wasteful, but not sure how many printers in this range can handle custom sized media.
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it will depend on the clarity and quality of the original photo, if you have a great photo you get a great picture, should then be able to print to an 8x10
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Really, with upsizing available in PS, image size is limited only by your ability to print. This assumes your print process is correct. I personally have printed 24x36 images, 48x72 would be a snap. Unless you are thinking way beyond this dimensions, don't give it a second thought.
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It says it scans photos up to 8x10 and 35mm negatives. But we don't scan slides so I'm not exactly sure how that works.
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Practical printing requires about 300 ppi, and 10in x 300ppi means about 3000dots. So, in the long dimension, you need to be scanning about 3000 dots. Simplifying a 35mm slide to 1in (it's really about 1.44in), if you scan at 3200dpi, you would end up with an image that is over the necessary 3000dots in the larger dimension. You could squeak by with 2400dpi resolution, as the full frame negative would give just over 3000dots at 2400dpi, but storage space is cheap, and the scan time isn't greatly increased, so I would just do them all at the higher resolution, rather than having to go back again with a higher resolution on the ones you want to print. It's a good question, and the answer is dependent on you wanting to print 8x10 photos from the scans. If your purpose was web or screen display, you are looking at significantly lower resolution required dpi for a good scan. You can always reduce the size of the file later, but you can't grow the file as you have already noted. It is safe to scan too large and shrink, as the scan time easily dominates all other operations later on the file, except restoration.
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I did scan some very old negatives from the '30s, but it is not easy. Back then, negitives were in all kinds of shapes and sizes. The scanner does just fine, but the software is poor. I did this a few years ago, so as I remember, I used Gimp on a Linux machine. Otherwise, the Epson software expects the negative to fit into one of the included frames. Using this process, it took a few minutes of fiddle with the settings to scan just one negative.
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I have never used it, but there is a menu choice in professional mode for either black and white or color negatives. I have used it to digitize slides as jpeg files and it worked fine.
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That should work well-- it's the shiny side you want. I have same printer and paper, and my prints are outstanding. Are you printing from Photoshop? I just noticed that I always select Standard by default-- but choosing photo shouldn't make any real difference like you describe.