05-25-2012, 04:31 PM
I have a simple, but technical question I'd appreciate advice on. For the purposes of the question, I have simplified the numbers.
My commercial printers are going to print pages I have prepared, at 12 x 12 at 300dpi and have asked that I supply these page at 300dpi to this dimension. For various reasons, my pages are going to be created as 12.2 x 12.2 at 300dpi - the dpi I can alter, the page size I can't.
So if I just supply these as is, I expect they will need to resize/resample from my 12.2 x 12.2 300dpi images before printing them at 12 x 12 300dpi.
Assuming that to be the case, is it better then, for me to produce the 13 x 13 images at a much higher dpi (say for example 600dpi), so that there is more data in the image for them to resample down to? In which case, how would I go about working out what the best dpi setting is to create my artwork?
As stated above, for various reasons, I cannot control the physical size of the image outputted from my workflow, but I can dictate what dpi it produces it at.
Many thanks in advance.
My commercial printers are going to print pages I have prepared, at 12 x 12 at 300dpi and have asked that I supply these page at 300dpi to this dimension. For various reasons, my pages are going to be created as 12.2 x 12.2 at 300dpi - the dpi I can alter, the page size I can't.
So if I just supply these as is, I expect they will need to resize/resample from my 12.2 x 12.2 300dpi images before printing them at 12 x 12 300dpi.
Assuming that to be the case, is it better then, for me to produce the 13 x 13 images at a much higher dpi (say for example 600dpi), so that there is more data in the image for them to resample down to? In which case, how would I go about working out what the best dpi setting is to create my artwork?
As stated above, for various reasons, I cannot control the physical size of the image outputted from my workflow, but I can dictate what dpi it produces it at.
Many thanks in advance.