RE: filmscanners: File sizes, file formats, etc. for printing 8.5 x 11and 13 x 17...

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

> >>> I am curious how you know they (let's say the Epson printers)
> print more
> >>> than one dot at any one 'point' on the paper, ie, the CM, CY
> >>
> >> Let's call it empirical observation.
> >
> > I asked 'the power that knows for sure' and he said no, they do
> not overlay.
> > They are very close, but the definitely do not overlay.
>
> Nothing personal, but I don't believe your power.  My magnifier assisted
> eyes say otherwise.  Ask your "power" how the big block of near black
> CMY is created on the Adobe test print if the dots cannot overlay.

OK, perhaps we are using the same word to mean two different things.  Do you
mean they 'touch' and appear to overlap every so slightly?  That is from dot
gain.  If you mean they print in the exact spot, entirely overlapping, that,
I believe and confirmed, is wrong.

The printers to NOT mix inks.  If you place one ink over the other, you will
get the color of the top ink.

> Also, whomever the "power" is... did he work on the drivers for the
> original 720 dpi printers I use - the Epson Stylus color, pro and XL,
> which are the printers I'm using?

I do not believe it would be the driver that handled this. It is probably
handled in firmware.  He wrote the Piezography drivers, and as such, knows
exactly what these printers are capable of doing.  I would believe he knows
these printers better than any person outside Epson.