It's All In The Settings
When printing photos for the best results, stick with a print resolution between
200 and 300 ppi. That's all you need to remember. Don't believe me? Try printing a 4 by 6 with 800 by 1200 pixels. Then compare it to a 1000-by-1500
pixel image. If you can see much, if any difference, your eyes are better than mine.
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When using photo glossy paper in your printer try to avoid touching the glossy surface before loading the paper into the printer. The oil on your fingers can cause permanent marks on the print-out.
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If your camera offers you the choice of saving the photo as a TIFF or JPG file, always choose TIFF. TIFF files are larger and you won't be able to take
as many photos per digital memory card, but the images will look much cleaner, crisper, and more highly detailed than a compressed JPG image
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It's All In The Settings
by Barry Shultz
Inkjet printers do a great job on text printing but many people do not know
that you don't need a photo printer to make great photo printouts. Sure a photo printer is going to do a superior job and a little faster but you really
don't need a photo printer for spectacular photo quality prints.
Most inkjet printers on the market today have a mode for printing on photo
glossy paper. If you use good quality photo glossy paper, 7 - 10 mills in thickness, you can get a picture perfect print.
A good quality digital camera helps too. Most digital cameras sold today have
the capability of making a decent print even on the lowest resolution. Of course
if you want a better print you need to use a higher resolution on your camera.
I won't go into resolution settings here because everybody has their own idea of what their perfect resolution is and my inbox
would be flooded. :-)
My point with this article is to get people to use the right printer setting if
they want great photo prints. If you try using regular 20 lb bond paper using
the printers general settings you will be very disappointed with the results.
Get some good quality glossy paper and try this test. Make a print on regular
paper using general settings. Then make one with your printer set to glossy
paper using high quality mode and compare. The first will look like a water colored newspaper picture. The second will look like you just got it
back from Kodak!
(Hey Cliff, is it true Kodak is going all digital? Time to buy some Fuji stock!)
This is not news to a lot of you but a surprising number of people reading
this will suddenly go "hhhmmmmm, that explains some things".
Time for a shameless plug. We just put some great quality Photo Glossy Paper on our web site. Since Repeat-O-Type was sold they dropped their "Picture Perfect" line of papers so we had to find another supplier. I was
blown away by what we found. I just tested these papers and the results were astonishing. Check them out here:
http://atlascopy.com/media/glossy.htm
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Till next time.
Happy printing
Barry Shultz
Atlascopy, Inc.
PO Box 1292
Dover, DE. 19903
http://atlascopy.com
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