On 06/07/2011 05:37 PM, Ted Powell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:40:08PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: >> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:25:50 pm Ted Powell wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:11:05PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: >>>> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:24:58 am Gregory Pittman wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> My favorite printer wants 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line art. >>> >>> FWIW, my HP CLJ 2605dn does up to 1200x1200 black and 600x600 colour, >>> and it's a quite modestly priced machine. >> >> Printed text is in some form of vector format. To reproduce it crisply >> requires much higher dpi when it is rasterized late in the prepress >> processing. For commercial printers 2500+ is common. The reason your desktop >> printer has the ability to print 1200 x 1200 is for text, not illos. > > The logo I wanted to include in my document was in a vector format, SVG, > but Scribus didn't seem to want to deal with it, so I rasterized it as a > 600x600 PNG. Is there some better way I could have handled this? > This is what I would do also, perhaps an even higher dpi than this.
Greg
