Photoshop Printing

Dunsby

When i print, the text that comes it is of a very poor standard... It is all blury and hard to read.. How to fix this?

nightdragon

Not use filters? I dunno mate

CatCop

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When selecting the text there should be a drop down that says Smooth or something.
Change that to crisp.
That MIGHT work.

Jimmeh

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*cough*

(sorry couldnt help myself)

Try editing your printer's print type (my printer has 3, draft, good and best)

nightdragon

Also when priniting things its good to increase the pixels per inch setting, so when creating the image in photoshop etc change the pixels per inch to something like 300 for a crisper image

ND

CatCop

Setting your printer settings to best might help also.

esuna

nightdragon hit the nail right on the head. It's the image's resolution. If you make an image in the standard resolution (72 pixels / inch) it looks fine on the net, but when it comes to printing it will be absolutely tiny.

If you want good quality printing you'll have to aim between 300-600 pixels / inch, but you can't just resize it, you have to do everything in this resolution. Unless, of course, you're using Illustrator, or any vector based graphics program since they are scaleable without any quality loss. Photoshop is 99% raster / bitmap based.

This will lead to disgusting sized files and very slow loading times, but that's the price you have to pay for images of a much nicer quality.

Power-Line

i try and use illusrator for that, like t shirts and such