Selecting DPI For Printing - How ?

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I have been reading that an image scanned at 1200 dpi can be printed out
at 300 dpi to obtain a reasonable quality enlargement.

I don't have a dpi selector on my hp deskjet 3420 driver. Is their a
work around for this ?
Thanks.

Micko

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers,alt.comp.periphs.printers (More info?)

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:37:54 +0000, in comp.periphs.printers Micko <-@-.->
wrote:

>I have been reading that an image scanned at 1200 dpi can be printed out
>at 300 dpi to obtain a reasonable quality enlargement.

These are more properly referred to as 1200 and 300ppi in these cases. PPI
being pixels per inch.

>I don't have a dpi selector on my hp deskjet 3420 driver. Is their a
>work around for this ?

Printer dpi is something completely different than image ppi, confusing
called dpi sometimes.

To help get an understanding of these concepts and the differences, I'd
recommend looking at the info found at
http://www.scantips.com/basics01.html
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