It’s around 8 megapixels, so should be good for tests up to 13×19″ and still look great. I’ve also made the test image that I created available, so that you can use the same image to test your own printer and papers if you want to. Here you can download a standalone PDF document including the text and images. I printed on twenty high quality photographic and fine art papers, and in this and the next Podcast episode we’re going take a look at the results. Having put some thought into this, I decided to make test image contain both photographic images and scientific charts, that I would can to build an archive of the various papers that I’m interested in, and that I have available to me.
At some point, something slips through the net and catches you unaware. Until now my method has been to print my favorites at the time, and a few prints that I know are troublesome, but it can be difficult to judge how good or bad a paper is based on photographic images alone. Testing papers can be costly, in terms of both time and money.
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