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I am trying to increase the dpi of a flyer I made to 300 from 72. Because
when I have Kinkos enlarge it they say it is blurry and pixelated.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
by irisherica Accepted solution
by robo_dev Accepted solution
by seanferd Accepted solution
In the printer properties. If this shows up when you go to print, you can set it then. You can also select your printer from the Control panel, from Start menu > Settings, or from the Explorer tree or window in My Computer.
In printer properties, look for something where you can set the quality to high, or photo quality (photo will be really high). There will be somewhere you can actually set the dpi, possibly in an 'advanced' tab or button.
70 dpi is really low. My 'normal' print quality is 360 dpi.
Since I don't have your exact printer and OS, I can't tell you exactly where to look in Printer Properties, but it is in there somewhere!
I hope this helps you out. If you have any documentation for your printer, the info should be in there if you can't find the quality or dpi settings in Printer Properties.
by captbilly1eye Accepted solution
The flyer was saved or created using a DPI of 72 because it was probably originally intended for web use and not for printing.
Increasing the DPI resolution of a graphic file once it has been saved using a lower DPI will not increase the quality of the graphic. All you are doing at that point is stretching out the imperfections caused by the lower resolution. Image information was reduced by creating or saving it in 72DPI and therefore that information is lost.
The only way you are going to be able to produce a quality printed image is to recreate the source image using a higher DPI to begin with. You can always reduce the resolution quality later if need be but it is not possible to increase quality once the information is removed.
BTW... 72DPI is the recommended maximum resolution for web graphics since anything higher does not improve viewing quality on the internet and only serves to make the graphic file size unnecessarily large.
For professional print quality, the resolution should be set to 600DPI and for normal printing, 300 or 350DPI is sufficient.
by older mycroft Accepted solution
If you were to develop the revamped flyer within a program like QuarkXpress [ the Printing industry standard program ] you could output to composite files - these files would each contain only the image dots for each of the C,M,Y,K colour values, for commercial printing.
Supplying these colour-separated-value files would be universally acceptable for commercial printing companies.
With these files you would negate the costs of photographic film by utilising STP (Straight To Plate) protocols.
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