AmyS
07-12-2011, 09:54 AM
So I have been reading online for some weeks that I should increase the dpi of my images to get better quality upon printing. Trying this multiple times, the quality of the image is still very poor.
I have a Dell 3115cn printer at work and we print a lot of information sheets on our company and products. I`m finding that the printer is printing these weird pixels that are not visible on screen. So I went into Photoshop and re-did the image from scratch at 300 dpi. The colours of this one particular image I`m currently working on is red and white. FFFFFF is being used to get the purest white possible. The printer prints these dark, huge and nasty looking pixels in those white areas. It prints best out of photoshop, ok but getting pixels in Power Point but just the worst quality possible in PDF.
I read that having the image in png instead of jpg was an issue. Making it jpg didn`t help whatsoever. My ink levels are at 80% on all 4 cartridges. Telling the program to tell the printer to print "high quality" didn`t help. Having the dpi at 300 isn`t helping.
I have some old prints form the printer made last year by the previous employee in my position and there is no pixelation whatsoever and I am using all the same programs as they did to create these brochures (creating images, then putting it together in Power Point then converting to PDF and printing from there).
Why is this happening and what will solve it?
I have a Dell 3115cn printer at work and we print a lot of information sheets on our company and products. I`m finding that the printer is printing these weird pixels that are not visible on screen. So I went into Photoshop and re-did the image from scratch at 300 dpi. The colours of this one particular image I`m currently working on is red and white. FFFFFF is being used to get the purest white possible. The printer prints these dark, huge and nasty looking pixels in those white areas. It prints best out of photoshop, ok but getting pixels in Power Point but just the worst quality possible in PDF.
I read that having the image in png instead of jpg was an issue. Making it jpg didn`t help whatsoever. My ink levels are at 80% on all 4 cartridges. Telling the program to tell the printer to print "high quality" didn`t help. Having the dpi at 300 isn`t helping.
I have some old prints form the printer made last year by the previous employee in my position and there is no pixelation whatsoever and I am using all the same programs as they did to create these brochures (creating images, then putting it together in Power Point then converting to PDF and printing from there).
Why is this happening and what will solve it?