DPI for print
 

Hello all!

I'm getting a picture enlarged (not huge, it's only going to be a 24"x20") and I was wondering what a good pixels/inch (DPI?) was to send it to a lab and get good quality.

Any tips are appreciated!

Thanks,

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Jairo

Typically, the lab does a pretty great job doing the interpolation themselves. So, you may just want to send the file at it's native resolution. This is especially true if you don't know what DPI they print at - since they'll end up doing some interpolation anyway...

Otherwise, you'll want to resize to the DPI that they print at - which varies by lab. Usually you can find it in the FAQ's pages... I have just started using Blow-Up and love it.

I always use 300 dpi. Don't know if this is right or wrong, but all my prints at any size come back amazing. Print it on metallic too!

300 DPI is the maximum print resolution of most Fuji Frontier Printers, With the exeption that some of the newer printers, the Frontier 550/570/590 can do 600 PPI on like 12 x 18" prints. I use 300 DPI also.

Thanks you all for the advice! ...but, what if I've been editing that image at 120dpi, would that be OK for a 20"x24"?

I guess I should've asked BEFORE starting to do the post processing, lol :(

Not sure with that Jairo. I have both my ACR resolution and crop DPI set to 300 so I never have to worry about that. If you know what you did to the image you can always go back and PP it with no problems.

hmm.... it might be safer to just go ahead and do that. I was trying not to do the work all over again :P

thanks though! :)

Unless they REQUIRE a certain DPI, send it cropped to the aspect ratio and let them interpolate the DPI as in the 1st response.

good reading:
http://www.perfectposters.com/pparticles.htm

and it is where I print my larger prints.

duplicate.........

very good reading. Thanks for the link!