Big Prints from the M10-R

[scott kirkpatrick]

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Has anyone taken favorite M10-R shots to the limits of 240 to 300 dpi prints, and how do they look?  I know this will require verbal descriptions, not web-scale extracted 100% cropping.

And to the guys from HP Labs that called me the other day to propose exactly this sort of an exploration -- I forgot to take down your email contact info, but you know how to reach me.  I have some nice M10-R originals which I can send you to work with as 100% renderings, on the subjects we discussed...

 

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[EddieCheddar]

Hi Scott,

I am not a professional photographer, or printer, nor do I want to be.  I simply enjoy making photographs of family and friends, and printing some of the pictures, then mounting them on gator board, and building a simple frame or attaching some sort of hangar for the photograph.  Very fun, but also very "do it yourself" style.

I'm not sure what size you mean by "big" prints, but I have a Canon printer which can print 24 inches wide, and as long as the roll is. (I recently printed a seven-foot long and two-foot wide photo, just to see how that would work -- it's very cool.)

I just printed this funny black and white shot of my friend (see attached photo), taken with the M10-R.
I know it's not the best image to judge a "print" by, but at 300 DPI on 325 gram paper, it came out equally as well as my prints taken from my SL2.

I've been trying to get some more time in with my M10R, and when I do I'm sure I'll be printing many more and I'll have a better answer for you then.
But I thought I'd share this with you for now, in case it helps any.
 
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[J.Nordvik]

This may sound obvious, but I do not know how well you know printing. Take a crop of the picture you want to print and make it so that the PPI is the same as the bigger picture. Print that crop. Print more of those crops with different adjustments (sharpening(for print, and for what print?), contrast, clarity etc.). I made at least fifty test prints like this.

[scott kirkpatrick]

I don't own a printer myself, but use office printer/copiers on our network for work prints.  I am back in contact with some developers of a new technology (non ink jet) printer family,.  I'll try the suggestion of using tight crops as test strips on our best wax printers with good old fashioned copier paper. 

Edited August 13, 2020 by scott kirkpatrick