What Print Settings Produce the Finest Quality?
Marc Almont: I had little luck finding information specific to the iPF5000 in the forums so I took time to do a little testing and although the observations are subjective I am pleased with the results. All tests were done with the following constant. 17″x22″ Ilford smooth gloss, 16 bit 600ppi, 8.5×11″ file. • Printed with the Canon windows print driver, Qimage and the Canon 16 bit plug in (16 bit, high accuracy, 16pass 2400dpi); the 16 bit plugin was superior. • Used canon profiles and custom profiles (Cathy’s Profiles); The custom profiles were superior. • Sent the 16 bit plugin a 300 ppi 17″x22″ file, a 600ppi 8.5″x11″ file (let the plugin size to fit) and sent the plugin a 600ppi 17″x22″ file upsized twice in CS2 using bicubic smoother; the latter was superior. Summary: Use the plugin, a custom profile, upsize the file in photoshop to 600ppi resolution and actual print size using Bicubic Smoother. The difference between the drivers, rendering intent and profiles was more than subtl
