Does it depend on how big a print they want? Generally for printing, the PPI specification is for the actual output size. Discuss this with the printer.
This means sending a pixel per inch image; for the Label size you want. Thus a 3x4" Label would be x pixels; ie 3x by 4x The reason they ask for this is quality. Some folks might submit just an image at say ppi; and then get mad "because the printer company screwed up". This is REAL common with the lay public; as regular as the sun coming up each day.
This also means a real ppi image; not an upsized one from 30 ppi to ppi; that really appears poor with text and fine detail. The "ppi" number depends on the actual printer's printer. With some of my printers; a ppi image will appear somewhat better; especially if a "microfont from hell" is used by the customer. A good lable can be made with lower than ppi; it just depends on the FONT sizes; Font style; Logo details; image details. Some fonts work well at really low resolutions. Scanning: It will also show the output image size created if the area is scanned at the dpi resolution.
Scanning to print a copy at the same size is a very common goal. It's important to realize that an area scanned at dpi will create the pixels necessary to also print the same size at dpi.
The concept either way is pixels per inch. And dpi is likely what you want for a photo copy job. The one-hour print shops accept larger images, but many machines are set to use dpi. Just scale it to print size. But planning size to have sufficient pixels to be somewhere near the size ballpark of to pixels per inch is a very good thing for printing.
Aspect Ratio - a Printing Basic about image "Shape" Long dimension fitted Short dimension fitted Preparing the image shape to fit the paper shape is necessary, because paper and image are often different shapes.
Aspect Ratio is the "shape" of the image — the simple ratio of the images long side to its short side, which is a shape, maybe long and thin, or short and wide. And every paper size seems to be a different shape too. Shape and size are two different properties. To print an image, we can always enlarge the Size, but the image shape needs to match the paper shape which is done by cropping.
It's important to crop the image shape to fit the paper shape. Size is easily adjusted, but shape can only be cropped. You could wait for the printer machine to simply trim the image automatically leaving whatever actually fits on the paper shape, without regard to the subject , but you will like the results better if you first choose the cropping yourself.
It should be obvious that the shape of an 8x12 inch image simply cannot be fully fitted onto 8x10 inch paper. Otherwise, printing will just cut off the part of the image that won't fit on the paper. Which could be a surprise you probably won't like. Printing and Scanning DPI Calculator If the image was previously cropped to be the same aspect ratio as the selected paper shape, then great, that's the idea.
If not, the calculator will advise what the optimum cropped size should have been. Most one hour print shops won't leave any white space, and this calculator does the same. However, before you print it, it would always be a really good thing if you had first prepared the image to fit the paper properly, both shape and size. Scanning common film and paper print dimensions will be in the Scanner "Area" box below metric paper shown in blue there.
If you need the dimensions of film sizes or metric A paper sizes, you can find them there in the film list box. Or you can specify any scan or print size. However, the scanned Input area size that you mark on the scan Preview can be smaller than the actual film or print or document if you crop it there.
Or you can crop it to match the print paper size later. Clicking a Compute button scrolls the screen to that button's results, but if this jumping is objectionable, you can turn scrolling off. Description of Results If the Result text might not be meaningful yet, then start at this: Cropping, Resampling, Scaling. It's the basics of something we all need to know about printing images.
The idea is not to simply compute some numbers, but to try to explain how you can already know this yourself. It's actually pretty simple.
If the image aspect ratio does happen to match the print paper aspect ratio, but the megapixel count is excessive, then it will suggest resample to smaller usable dpi size.
That is about "size", but aspect ratio is about "shape". And generally image and paper shapes do not match at first. Caution: When cropping and resamping your image for printing purposes, you should always save your original image for any future plans, because we do change our minds, but there's no going back. Always save such edits into a new file name. Don't overwrite your original file, because then the original image is gone. The simple calculation for that acceptable image size for printing is:.
To print x. The actual dpi calculator is below. Preparing the image shape to fit the paper shape is necessary, because paper and image are often different shapes. If your image aspect ratio does Not match the paper aspect ratio, then more results are offered: The orange result box first shows what your current numbers wants to print at literally whatever resolution it computes but if no better action is taken, it likely still does not match the print paper shape.
This is also what you would get now at the one hour photo lab as much as the surprising crop on the actual paper size can provide. Can't be done proper without some attention first. The one-hour print lab is not expected to handle the "crop to shape" in any good way that would please you, because humans don't see it. Their automated printer machine does it today, which simply doesn't see or recognize your image content.
It just cuts off whatever won't fit on the paper, which simply disappears. It's your job now, to crop to show it how you want to show it. A possible green text suggestion in the scanning options: The computed scan resolution for film possibly can result as like dpi, closely missing one of the scanners default multiples of , , , , dpi. It will show and use that number, but if the miss is pretty close and might be considered negligible, the calculator might also suggest for example, that scanning at dpi instead of would still print the same size at perhaps dpi, which likely cannot be distinguished from dpi see more below.
Many one hour labs limit printing to dpi anyway but their continuous tone is better quality than an inkjets dithered reproduction.
Again, it is just an alternate suggestion to be aware and possibly consider. You can also get the same information for different multiples in Option 3 by just trying a couple of values of available resolution. At PrintingCenterUSA, we make every effort to inform our customers of images that are low-resolution during the proofing process for your project, however being aware beforehand will end up saving you time and money on your project. What is Resolution? Resolution refers to the detail that an image holds.
The higher the resolution, the more detail. The lower the resolution, the less detail. DO NOT stress over the difference between the two. DPI refers to how many dots per inch there are in a printed image. PPI refers to how many pixels per inch there are in a digital image. However, pixels and dots are pretty much interchangeable. They both refer to the number of units within a square inch of an image.
My project looks clear on my screen. Why are you telling me it is low resolution? If you are informed by our technical team that your files are low resolution when you are confident that your images are high resolution because they appear clear on your screen, then the screen itself is likely the cause.
In our increasingly digital world, we spend most of our days staring at our smart phones, tablets, computers, and television screens. We will take a photo on our cell phone, upload it to our social media accounts, and text them to our friends. Well, they are all digital screens which are considered low-resolution devices. This means that images don't need to be as high-resolution to appear clear on the screen.
Since they don't need to be a high-resolution to be clear, then they don't need to be saved and uploaded at a high-resolution. If you were to print those images from your phone, or even images that you found in a quick Google search, then the results will likely disappoint you. They probably appear fuzzy or pixelated once printed. The digital images you are seeing daily are usually somewhere between 72 and DPI. The images you see when you get film developed or open a picture book are PPI or higher.
This is because a printed image requires much more detail per inch to showcase clarity. Here are a few scenarios that could cause your images even if they were high-resolution originally to be low-resolution:.
What can I do to ensure my images, text, and PDF file are all high-resolution?
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