Jaggies in small prints

I was doing some small prints (5.5x3.5 inch postcard size) using Lightroom yesterday. I noticed that some 15deg off horizontal white lines on a blue background had very obvious jaggies. I then exported the same photos as TIF and imported the TIF into QImage Pro and printed them again same size - perfect no sign of jaggies. What is going wrong in Lightroom? I was definitely not printing with the draft mode printing button selected. I can only assume that the re-scaling algorithm Lightroom uses for down-sizing is less than optimum. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to cure the problem in Lightroom?

Well, no...the old "send it a number divisible by the printer resolution" is an old wives tale...sound good and makes sense until you examine the way inkjet printers form dots.
I know for a "fact" that Epson doesn't do ANY resampling...their method of forming dots (variable size) is via an elaborate error diffusion method. It's much more like a sieve where the print driver allows some data to form dots while the excess (if any) is merely dropped off. The Epson driver (and I suspect the HP/Canon bubble-jet tech) really doesn't have a "real" native resolution...only an "effective resolution".
You would be far better off simply resizing without resampling to get your image size to be what you want-and let the ppi fall where they may. Even if it's an odd intermediate size.
It's the resampling to a specific ppi ratio that is wasteful and ineffective. Yes, you can upsample...but it will only do you any good if you also run additional sharpening or pixel manipulation because the resampling actually introduces softness.
The advantage-particularly in a Lightroom type environment-is that for small print you need more ppi and for large you need less. So, ideally LR should just allow you to send real and unsampled resolution to your printer. Currently it doesn't....and I think that will change.

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