Printing problem

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jfen
Oct 18, 2006
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Hi, first post and a total newb on this forum…i’ve used photoshop for photos (casual personal use) with no significant problems but now I’ve created a promo pamphlet, no photos, just images and text…but when I go to print it, it comes out looking like crap, pixelated and blurry, text and images. Don’t know what I’m doing wrong, looks great on comp as photoshop file, jpeg, gif, html, and even as a pdf but printed in any of those formats it still comes out looking like crap, huge difference that what’s on the screen. tried printer on all resolutions, does photos just find…but not this simple pamphlet. File is 8.5 x 11 and takes up the full page.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated…has got to be something stupid that I’ve missed….

Josh
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dave_milbut
Oct 18, 2006
couple things to try,

don’t flatten the image before printing.

make sure the document’s resolution (image> image size> ppi) is sufficient for your printer. 300 ppi is usually sufficient for decent looking text but you might go higher if your printer supports it.

re the above, if your documents are in the default 72ppi you may be better off recreating them starting at 300ppi, because resizing (also called resampling) to get you there will decrease the text quality.

you can also play with the different anti-aliasing options for the text in the character palette (or on the options bar).

hth, dave
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LenHewitt
Oct 18, 2006
Save as PDF retaining text and vectors and print from Acrobat.

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