RE: Blurry printed image (not a screen shot)

["Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au>]

Take the screen shot in a higher-res, like 12x8. It halves the required
chunkiness. Also, set your printer to 300dpi and THAT will halve it as well.

Other than that you can (bad option) add res with  good dithering and
interpolation routines. Tis an old problem, we have low-res for screen, and
high-res for printers. Never the twain shall meet :-(. Tis also the reason
for "My PDF graphics are blurry" etc etc.

When your screenshots in word are at 100%, they are roughly at 100dpi. Thus,
to get good printed graphics, the screenshots need to look good on screen
scaled to 33%. Any reduction in picture scale will help this, as the reduced
size means less physcial area for the limited number of picture elements to
be printed across.

Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
The best way to predict the future... is to create it!



-----Original Message-----
From: Tara English-Sweeney [mailto:tesweeney -at- novadigm -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:41 AM
To: 'steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au'; 'TECHWR-L'
Subject: RE: Blurry printed image (not a screen shot)


Apparently our printers are set to the max of 600 dpi. Any ideas of what I
can do to stop it from "chunkifying" the printer's pixels?

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hudson [mailto:steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au]
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 11:34 PM
To: Tara English-Sweeney; 'TECHWR-L'
Subject: RE: Blurry printed image (not a screen shot)


Your printer prolly has a res of at least 300dpi. Screen res is approx
100dpi. So it has to chunkify the "printer's pixels" to print it to the
right visible scale.

Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
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