Sharpening For Photo Lab

[Son]

Which Contone Output Sharpener would one use for a typical photo lab that uses a Frontier or similar machine?

[Bruce Fraser]

Which Contone Output Sharpener would one use for a typical photo lab that uses a Frontier or similar machine?

As with all the output sharpeners, you'd use the one that matches the resolution of the file you're sending.

[Tim Ernst]

As with all the output sharpeners, you'd use the one that matches the resolution of the file you're sending.

Bruce:

So how should I sharpen 1400 x 1050 files that are being output to a high-res 1400 x 1050 projector? PK Sharpen only goes up to 1024...Any ideas much appreciated.

[Bruce Fraser]

I'm afraid that for the moment, you're on your own. I'm planning to add support for larger files to the web/multimedia sharpeners, but that's at least a couple months out.

Best suggestion I can give you right now is to roll your own output sharpener using the techniques in

http://www.creativepro.com:80/story/feature/20357.html