Hm. Is 300 dpi sufficient? Sounds a little low to me but I could be wrong. And then I guess one has to ”clean” the scanned image quite a bit in order to get good results.
It also would be really cool if one could ”carve” the lines to the paper. Might be possible with a plotter and the right kind of stylus.
A while a go I bought an artwork that actually was cut out from an issue of Harpers’ Magazine c:a 1860 or so. One thing that’s really cool about that line art is that the printing technique made the lines embossed to the paper. Beautiful!
300dpi is typical for most things that go from graphic designer to professional printer. It should be sufficient for most things.
If you're looking for a way to turn a bitmap into a vector type thing, for a plotter or laser or so on, then potrace or the bitmap->vector converter inside Inkscape should be able to do it. They work well for line art.
It also would be really cool if one could ”carve” the lines to the paper. Might be possible with a plotter and the right kind of stylus.
A while a go I bought an artwork that actually was cut out from an issue of Harpers’ Magazine c:a 1860 or so. One thing that’s really cool about that line art is that the printing technique made the lines embossed to the paper. Beautiful!