ANY text that I enter in Photo Impact prints out in TERRIBLE quality. This occurs regardless of what size the font is. I have double checked and made sure the anti-aliasing is selected.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP.
Note: If I simply load up Microsoft word and print something out in the same text/font it looks perfect. But in Photo Impact is looks TERRIBLE (even though the color photographs print out perfectly in photo impact).
PLEASE HELP.
Text prints out with very BAD quality. PLEASE PLEASE help.
Could you please define "Terrible?"
Is it out of focus ? Does everything look fine on your monitor ?
Here is an image with text.
Copy it to your desktop, load it into PhotoImapct and print it out.
It will (and does) print out properly using PI's "Print function."
Tell us how it prints out for you.
We should be able to work from here.
Bob
Is it out of focus ? Does everything look fine on your monitor ?
Here is an image with text.
Copy it to your desktop, load it into PhotoImapct and print it out.
It will (and does) print out properly using PI's "Print function."
Tell us how it prints out for you.
We should be able to work from here.
Bob
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puzzele
Thank you for your message. I've been working on this for 8 hours.. and CANNOT figure it out....
Anyway... I printed out your picture. Yup, it worked fine. But to be honest, I'm not surprised. The problem arises when I'm printing smaller text.
For example, if you type something in with about a font 7 in Microsoft Word, it prints perfectly. But if you print it out in Photo Impact, it looks terrible -- basically meaning that it is very blury. The easiest way to explain this is to load up microsoft paint. Type in your name. Then print it. It looks TERRIBLE. Basically, the EXACT same thing is happening in Photo Impact.
Is there any way to improve the print quality of small text? I was thinking that perhaps I had to increase the 'resolution' but my problem is I have spent MANY hours creating flyers... and I think it would take forever to redo everything at a different resolution.
If you can help me with this , I would be ENORMOUSLY grateful.
Anyway... I printed out your picture. Yup, it worked fine. But to be honest, I'm not surprised. The problem arises when I'm printing smaller text.
For example, if you type something in with about a font 7 in Microsoft Word, it prints perfectly. But if you print it out in Photo Impact, it looks terrible -- basically meaning that it is very blury. The easiest way to explain this is to load up microsoft paint. Type in your name. Then print it. It looks TERRIBLE. Basically, the EXACT same thing is happening in Photo Impact.
Is there any way to improve the print quality of small text? I was thinking that perhaps I had to increase the 'resolution' but my problem is I have spent MANY hours creating flyers... and I think it would take forever to redo everything at a different resolution.
If you can help me with this , I would be ENORMOUSLY grateful.
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MikeGunter
Hi,puzzele wrote:Thank you for your message. I've been working on this for 8 hours.. and CANNOT figure it out....
Anyway... I printed out your picture. Yup, it worked fine. But to be honest, I'm not surprised. The problem arises when I'm printing smaller text.
For example, if you type something in with about a font 7 in Microsoft Word, it prints perfectly. But if you print it out in Photo Impact, it looks terrible -- basically meaning that it is very blury. The easiest way to explain this is to load up microsoft paint. Type in your name. Then print it. It looks TERRIBLE. Basically, the EXACT same thing is happening in Photo Impact.
Is there any way to improve the print quality of small text? I was thinking that perhaps I had to increase the 'resolution' but my problem is I have spent MANY hours creating flyers... and I think it would take forever to redo everything at a different resolution.
If you can help me with this , I would be ENORMOUSLY grateful.
It is likely because the resolution you want isn't want you're telling PI to do.
Think of the size of a printed page of Word as an absolute, but the size of a screen in PI as relative. You give the screen size an absolute when you define how it is printed. All resolution is *device dependent* from pixels per inch/ to lines per inch and so on.
Bump up your pixels per inch when creating the image.
Mike
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thecoalman
Try resizing the images larger, there's 3 selections for the method. Set the image dimensions to whatever your printing at in inches and use at least 300 as a resolution. Try all three different methods on the same image to see which one provides the best results. My guess is that you'll get better results than you have now but probably not by much. You could also try lowering the DPI your printing at.
If you saved your images in the UFO format you could always just resize both the canvas and objects at once using the resize dialog box. Since the text is a path image it will resize accordingly.
To elaborate a little more on what Mike pointed out text when printed in Word (or created in PI) uses paths as opposed to image data. A S will look the same whether it's 7 px or 10000 px. Once merged into an image though it is no longer a path. As you have guessed your trouble lies in the fact that you have created a low resolution image which has little image data, the printer has to compensate for this by adding data which creates a soft blurry image.
The next image you go to create set the image size in inches relative to your paper size with a resolution of at least 300.
Here's a little more info on resolution... http://www.nepadigital.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=209#209
If you saved your images in the UFO format you could always just resize both the canvas and objects at once using the resize dialog box. Since the text is a path image it will resize accordingly.
To elaborate a little more on what Mike pointed out text when printed in Word (or created in PI) uses paths as opposed to image data. A S will look the same whether it's 7 px or 10000 px. Once merged into an image though it is no longer a path. As you have guessed your trouble lies in the fact that you have created a low resolution image which has little image data, the printer has to compensate for this by adding data which creates a soft blurry image.
The next image you go to create set the image size in inches relative to your paper size with a resolution of at least 300.
Here's a little more info on resolution... http://www.nepadigital.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=209#209
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puzzele
Thank You.
You guys were exactly correct. I changed the resolution to 600. It printed out PERFECT.
Thank you enormously for taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it.
Thank you enormously for taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it.
