Epson 3880 printer software drivers#

When I recalculate the image size to be sent to the printer to be printed at 100%, I do the calculations on pixels per inch. And when I print the same image on 300'dpi' vs 360 'dpi' at 100% I will get 2 different sizes. And when being printed on the same size, at least one of them must be resized. GeorgeWhen printing, size is the key factor as you are looking at, based on the paper size of your final output.

The image must be scaled to the appropriate size to fit on the print medium and this will almost never be the native resolution of the camera output. This means the photographer needs to resize the image to fit on the paper. There are two factors in play here the width and lengths of the image file that has been produced will rarely have the same ratio as the width and length of the paper the image is being printed on, so some adjustment (usually cropping) will have to be done for the fit.

The second piece is scaling the image to fit the print size. Depending on the camera that was used and the print size, the image will have to be either upsampled or downsampled to fit. The printer driver can handle both of these operations, but the result will probably not be optimal, so we tend to do this using our PP tool of choice. The other issue is that the printer does have a native mode, as was previously discussed. If the final image is not at the correct resolution for the specific printer, the driver will have to interpolate to bring the image to the correct resolution. This is of course, on top of any resizing done in post.

Epson 3880 printer software drivers#

Again, in theory, the printer should be able to produce a sharper image if the image is set to the native resolution, but in practice, I find that the print drivers are extremely good, so I am not sure anyone is going to notice the difference between a 300 dpi or 360 dpi resolution in the final print.Дem's remark on printing the original size made me playing with the printer.