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Old 01-12-2008, 05:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
freddyhard
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Re: DPI Imaging and Printing

resizing the image will only make it worse. whether you are enlarging or decreasing it and every time you do this it just gets more fuzzy.

when the printers say that it is 81 and 96dpi, that is only ½ the info. what is the image size in inches (or mm) it needs to be on the page?

so to work out an actual print size of an image, open the image with photoshop or even a lesser photo editing software and look at the size of the image in pixels. then divide the width and height by 300 and this will tell you the actual print size in inches. so if the image is 2400x1800 and being printed at 300dpi then the image size will be 8"x6". if it was being printed at 150dpi then it would be 16"x12".
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