I'm beginning to work on the 5 x 7 prints (yesterday was a lost day with personal stuff) - and the surprising thing - is that although I never noticed much difference with the larger prints between 1440 ppi and 2880 - I do notice it with the smaller prints (since you're looking closer). Subtle but there. So I'm printing the smaller prints at 2880 ppi.
Also noticed that they've got to be a little "lighter." Again - not sure why that is but they are mostly too dark at this size. Again - not a big deal since everything is done with adjustment layers including the sharpening.
I have orders now for about 30 of these small prints. The other little unfortunate thing is that they've mostly got to be cropped here and there. Oh well, I'm not going to make custom mats at this size.
So that is odd. The giant printer I got is getting it's workout churning out small prints and the occassional large print. Still - can't say enough good things about the giant (for me) Epson 4800.
One of these days I'm going to have to do a write-up on the workflow from negative to final print. Just don't have the time or patience to do it yet.
One other question: why does Photoshop ask me whether I want to save a file after it's been printed? In other words - the file is saved before printing - but after printing it wants to save it again? How come? What does it need to remember?
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Craig, right now I'm printing each 5 x 7 on it's own sheet of letter size since I'm still in "proofing" mode. Then I'm going to set up templates with InDesign and print 2 on a letter size; or get more ambitious and set up template to print 4 on the roll paper. I like InDesign for this sort of layout I can generate crop marks for cutting the paper etc. But I don't want any package resizing images for me. I'll crop original files to 5 x 7's and then just pop them into image holders with InDesign.
As Jeff mentioned you can do something similar with Photoshop but InDesign is more flexible.
It doesn't save anything important, such as what type of paper was used; or what resolution; or anything like that. It may save margins etc. Will have to check that. But at any rate, everytime I go into PS for the first time, I need to set the print driver settings (which is not a big deal since they're saved as a custom configuration) but it doesn't remember things like: roll paper or tray either, even with a custom configuration file.
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