Funny, this ties into my digital printer challenge. Since even with my five year old printer I get better results than you are something, as you surmise, is wrong.
First check your printer setup properties. You should find a section for Quality. Select the best quality paper selections they give. On my printer that is "glossy film". For print quality select "Photographic". Select the highest resolution they offer. On mine that is 720x720. You may have to do this every time you set up to print another image as some of the printer software resets to the default values every time you print. If not then you are going to have to go in and select the low quality settings when you want to print text. You just can not win. <g> Ok, now resample your image to give 200 to 300 pixels per inch at the size you want to print it. Use a .tif image a .jpg has lost a lot of data when it was saved. Try a print. Most of your problem should be solved. For the best quality print you are going to have to find the paper that work best with your inks. Strangely, I find a generic high gloss photo quality paper from Office Depot seems to work better than any of the higher priced stuff I have tried including the printer manufactures paper. Now at this point it is time to calibrate your scaner, monitor, and printer to work together so what you see is pretty close to what you get. I am still working on this myself, so some one else can probably help you better than I can. --graywolf ------------------------------------------------- The optimist's cup is half full, The pessimist's is half empty, The wise man enjoys his drink. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mick Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:22 PM Subject: OT: Scanning and printing > After reading much about ink-jet "prints" etc here I thought I would try > printing my scans on my DeskJet. Equipment as follows: > > Hardware > Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II > HP DeskJet 840C (Max res 600x1200) with Kodak picture paper > > Software > VueScan > Paintshop Pro > on Windows 2000 > > OK, so I have tried matching resolutions, bit those of the scan and printer, > and to be honest the best I can get is something that looks like a page from > a cheap magazine. Take a look at: > > http://mick.maguire.net/ > > So what am I doing wrong? I realize that this is not exactly the most > expensive scanner or printer, but surely it should be better than this!? Any > help gratefully received. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
