"Just use the photo from the website for our brochure" Have you ever downloaded an image from the internet and then printed it, only to get results that were, well, less than you expected? The image looked great on your computer screen, but when you printed it, it either printed at the size of a postage stamp or it printed at a decent size but looked blurry and/or "blocky"? The culprit is image resolution. 2. Standard print resolution is 300dpi – the ink/tonner dots must be much finer in order to achieve a printed quality photograph 3. For our example we’ll consider a photo containing 640 pixels on width. A simple arithmetic will calculate the size in inches for:
LOW-RESOLUTION PHOTO SUITABLE FOR INTERNET
SAME LOW-RESOLUTION PHOTO ENLARGED FOR PRINT (see the pixilation)
ORIGINAL HI-RESOLUTION PHOTO SUITABLE FOR PRINT Conclusion: the same 8.88” photo that looks good on you monitor will print only 2.13” at the same quality. Any attempt to stretch that photo will result in pixilation, meaning you will try to “add” pixels that the original never had. |
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