On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 08:13:13PM -0400, Richard Nagle wrote: > hmm,. > that interesting, trying printing that out on a C86... yikes. > > Well, was wondering if there was a chart out there, > for print resolution sizes. > it is simple mathematics ....
> >On Sunday 26 June 2005 23.52, Richard Nagle wrote: > >> well, it would appear to me the more import ## is resolution, > >> i.e. a image at 1600 x 1200 @ 144 dpi ( 8 x 10 ) approx > >> would be a bad print, however scaling up to a 3200 x 2400 resolution image, > >> would produce a nice 300 dpi print. > >> > >> So, a chart, of resolution sizes, would be nice, > >> for printing out photo?s ..ie. 8x10 11x14 16x20...etc > >> your example is an example of the mathematics, for example. (dots = pixels) 1600 pixels ----------- = 11.11 inch 144 pixels ----- inch 3200 pixels ---------- = 10.67 inch 300 pixels ----- inch my physics teachers insisted that you always use the units and when you perform the mathematical operations on the values that you also do the mathematical operations on the units as well. it is really handy for checking your work (especially with more complicated mathematical evaluations). the problem with making a table with this information is that the different printing devices work differently and need different resolutions. the last time i was at a print shop, black and white printing only demanded 150 pixels/inch while the color printing needed 300 pixels/inch. another thing i noticed, making photo prints, 200 pixels/inch made perfectly fine color prints. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user