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Quality for Printing?
What quality would you guys recommend as a minimum for printing commercial stuff? 5mp on high setting or higher?
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As high as you can go?
Print resolution is usually 300 DPI - not sure how that converts/relates to MP from a camera tho. Maybe give a local print company a quick call or email?
Print resolution is usually 300 DPI - not sure how that converts/relates to MP from a camera tho. Maybe give a local print company a quick call or email?
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Originally Posted by Azz
As high as you can go?
Print resolution is usually 300 DPI - not sure how that converts/relates to MP from a camera tho. Maybe give a local print company a quick call or email?
Print resolution is usually 300 DPI - not sure how that converts/relates to MP from a camera tho. Maybe give a local print company a quick call or email?
I touched briefly on how MP and dpi relates to image size in the thread below:
http://www.yophotographer.com/showpo...7&postcount=18
The relevant part is given below:
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For example, my camera (8.2 MP) takes photo's which are 3504 x 2336 (largest). This would produce a 48.7 x 32.4 inch print at 72 dpi. The more I increase the dpi, the smaller the print, so at 180 dpi I can only produce a 19.5 x 13 inch print.
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Excellent post thanks! So really the bigger and best quality the better!
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Azz, I reckon this could probably be a sticky as it is a question that comes up quite often and the answer Greyhawk has given is brill
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Added to the newbies sticky
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