[scribus] 600 dpi

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 7 23:01:04 UTC 2011


On 06/07/2011 05:37 PM, Ted Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:40:08PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:25:50 pm Ted Powell wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:11:05PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:24:58 am Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> My favorite printer wants 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line art.
>>>
>>> FWIW, my HP CLJ 2605dn does up to 1200x1200 black and 600x600 colour,
>>> and it's a quite modestly priced machine.
>>
>> Printed text is in some form of vector format. To reproduce it crisply
>> requires much higher dpi when it is rasterized late in the prepress
>> processing. For commercial printers 2500+ is common. The reason your desktop
>> printer has the ability to print 1200 x 1200 is for text, not illos.
>
> The logo I wanted to include in my document was in a vector format, SVG,
> but Scribus didn't seem to want to deal with it, so I rasterized it as a
> 600x600 PNG. Is there some better way I could have handled this?
>
This is what I would do also, perhaps an even higher dpi than this.

Greg



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