On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:24:58 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 06/07/2011 09:03 AM, Tom Connolly wrote: > > Someone recently posted he has his tiffs at 600 dpi. AFAIK, no printer > > needs--indeed can use--more than 300 dpi. At 600 all you're doing is > > making a bigger file, with no benefits of sharper images. > > I think this is a bit of a distortion. For _most_ purposes, 300dpi > should be adequate. > > For high-resolution printing commercially, 600 or even greater may be > desired. I'm not sure that once you get to 1200+ that it gets so easy to > see further improvement in the visible quality, unless you're talking > about printing to a very large format.
My favorite printer wants 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line art. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Death Wore Black" Police procedural by retired police chief Bill Redding -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110607/4e243762/attachment.html>
