Best Printer Settings?

With my Epson 2400, should I follow the Aperture
dialog advice and turn OFF color management using
ColorSync (presumably letting Aperture do the color
management?), or should I turn it off it Aperture and
let the Epson stuff do the job?
I've downloaded the free premium Epson ICC profiles,
but am not even sure I have the properly installed or
setup, but it seems if I turn them off and rely on
Aperture I won't be getting the benefit of them.
I would leave printer maangement off (pretty sure Aperture will make sure that happens by default). To take advantage of the Epson ICC profiles, open the "Colorsync Profiles" dropdown and you should see profiles for your printer and paper you wish to use. For example, I see a "SPR800 Matte Paper" for my Epson R800 printer. Not sure why it's called SPR, but look for something similar for the 2400.
Not that you can also turn on screen proofiing for these profiles as well if you wish to preview what you'll get.

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Naked eye:
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I could not detect the inkjet dots. Smooth objects look smooth.
Jeweler's Loupe:
I could see significant reduction in the finest details in the 300 ppi print vs. the three higher resolution prints, and a slight reduction in the 567 ppi vs. 720.
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Things seem to have a little more texture in the 1000 ppi print vs. the 720 and 567 ppi prints.
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Lacking a high resolution scanner, I took photographs of the 6 different prints. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to set up with my best lighting and lens combination, so I got some reflections off the glossy paper, and and at this resolution I can't really see the inkject dots in the photos. I want to repeat this when I can find more time to do it better. As I did these photos hand-held, I believe the variances between them could be slightly influencing the results. But I'm going to post them anyway, for you to see.
I could see ever so slightly more detail in the 720 ppi print vs. the 1000 ppi print, though from the size of the tiny dust/light reflections I think it may have just been the better focused. Note that this observation is not supported by direct observation through the jeweler's loupe, above.
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Left to right, top to bottom: 1000, 720, 567, 300, 200, 100:
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When a sufficiently high resolution image is printed (in this case 567 ppi or higher) I saw virtually no evidence that a particular ppi value is superior, for example an even division of the printer's dpi, though in hindsight I realize I should have prepared a 600 ppi image (duh). I will add a 600 ppi image before I re-photograph the results.
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Noel Carboni wrote:
Jeff Schewe wrote:
I would never suggest people actually downsample though...why waste the pixels?
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