How to Design For Quality Prints

The end goal for those using printers is to get a high print quality. Whether printing images or texts, it is imperative to receive exceptional quality from your printer. The quality will mater especially if you are producing large prints. This is because mistakes will be more visible in large prints. Therefore, you need to design the print to convey clarity, sharpness, good resolution and your superior editing technique. To design quality prints, you need to eliminate some of the simple mistakes.

To design a quality print, it is important to understand that the higher the resolution, the higher the quality of the print will be. You thus need to have a good printer fitted with high quality toner cartridges. This is because a higher printing resolution gives the printer more information per inch of the print you want to produce. You can adjust the print resolution in the image size by adjusting the pixels per inch (PPI) option in the resolution box. If you use Photoshop, you can adjust the resolution in dialogue box for the image size. However, even though increasing the resolution will result in high quality prints, you will face the problem of interpolating the image to a larger size.

To make a larger image, you can either use a lower printing resolution, or increase the number of pixels. However, these two options will reduce the quality of the print. A lower resolution will send little information to the printer, while interpolating the image will degrade it. Although these two factors greatly affect the quality of the print, other factors also play a part. The type of printer and toner cartridges will also play a huge factor. In addition, the quality of the image itself also plays a major role. This is because a fine detailed image provides better quality print that one with little fine details. Nonetheless, it is easy to overcome these obstacles.

When you desire to make high quality prints, it is important to perform a variety of test prints at different resolutions then compare them to each other. You should then pick the image with the best quality output. Nonetheless, you need to keep some factors in mind. You should start with a printing resolution of 200 PPI. This presents a better print quality. It is also important to remember that even though a higher resolution produces pristine images, the quality of an image will suffer at some higher resolution. Therefore, it would not make sense to make a print above 360 PPI. Even while testing, it is not necessary to print out the whole image. Just print a detailed portion of the image. Carry out the process until you receive a quality print.

To create various prints in different resolutions, you will need to duplicate the original document while it is not yet interpolated. Crop the image in the parts you want to use for the test print. You will then launch the size dialogue box to set the desired resolution before printing the image. After you get the images, it is advisable to examine them while in room with good lighting. If you are looking for the highest quality print, you may need to use a loupe since the naked eye may not see some of the finer details.