scanners, color dpi, questions, concerns, beef jerky

[Jayce]

I've got an all in 1 epson scanner. It's pretty spiffy. I was scanning some pictures and after I scanned about 50 or 60 I came to realize I wasn't that happy with the sharpness. So I went into professional mode and saw the dpi was set to 300. I adjusted it to 9,600 but I got an error. I brought it back down to 1,200 and started printing.

Took 10 minutes and I'm awaiting the results but, I'm wondering something. If I set this to 1,200, would that adjust much else besides the sharpness of the picture? I just wanted some assurance on this since I know very little about printers and scanners.

EDIT - Also, what's the best options here?

I have 24 bit, 8 bit, or color smoothing... which is the ideal option?

Also, as far as resolution, I have about 25 options in dpi choices, ranging anywhere from 50 to 9,600. What to choose, what to choose.

 

[kostas]

Beef jerky is called biltong in South Africa and if you find good quality, it's pretty good!

 

[Jayce]

Beef jerky is called biltong in South Africa and if you find good quality, it's pretty good!

Uh, yeah. So, any serious comments-- PLEASE?!?!

 

[Trotter]

600 works good, 1200 works better but as you can tell it takes a lot longer.

The higher the DPI scanned, the bigger the file it makes.

 

[Jayce]

600 works good, 1200 works better but as you can tell it takes a lot longer.

The higher the DPI scanned, the bigger the file it makes.

I was hoping that along with the bigger file, which doesn't matter to me, I'd get a better quality scan. I scanned a picture at 300 dpi, and the same picture at 1200 dpi, and compared it directly to the original one from a disposable camera. The 300 and 1200 looked identicle, just... identicle. Down to the last little pixel that my eyes could see. The disposable one though... looked great. I can't seem to win...