J Milan
Member
Photo lab requires images to be at 402dpi, How do I set image to 402dpi with Qimage?
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Qimage - dpi
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Ruth Taylor
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I'll be waiting for this answer 
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Never heard of any asking for more than 300.
420 just seems like an of request.
Cant they just change the dpi themselves for the file if they needed to?
My other question is, do you do your editing in Qimage?
I only print with it and dont really use it for editing.
I would think the same way you change dpi in any software package would be the same general area you change it in QImage under an area pertaining to change size.
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) Never heard of any asking for more than 300.
420 just seems like an of request.
Cant they just change the dpi themselves for the file if they needed to?
My other question is, do you do your editing in Qimage?
I only print with it and dont really use it for editing.
I would think the same way you change dpi in any software package would be the same general area you change it in QImage under an area pertaining to change size.
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Dominic.Chan
Veteran Member
Some Noritsu printers used in photo labs have a native resolution of 400 dpi. The reason the lab asks for 402 dpi is to allow for some "overscan" for borderless prints, so that minor misalignment will not lead to small white borders on the print.
Dominic.Chan
Veteran Member
When you print to file, Qimage lets you set the dpi.
J Milan
Member
Thanks for all the replies, I think I have found the option to select a dpi, I also understand it is to do with white boarders appearing on the print.
I am finding Qimage a little difficult to get to grips with but after about 7 days fiddling arround I think I am slowly getting there. I am not good at reading on screen manuals and help files.
The lab I am thinking of sending a few images to for a test print appear to be a bit particular, but are supposed to do a good job, we will see.
I have been getting some nice enhancements to images I had previously eddited with Silkypix and thought were pretty good. A steep learning curve!
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EJM
I am finding Qimage a little difficult to get to grips with but after about 7 days fiddling arround I think I am slowly getting there. I am not good at reading on screen manuals and help files.
The lab I am thinking of sending a few images to for a test print appear to be a bit particular, but are supposed to do a good job, we will see.
I have been getting some nice enhancements to images I had previously eddited with Silkypix and thought were pretty good. A steep learning curve!
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EJM
Ok, then if that's the case, I wonder if you can set the noritsu in your Windows system as a printer. Then, in Qimage, select that as your printer but print to a file.
Qimage will then automatically set the resolution of its output correctly. That's the beauty of Qimage. It really does make life easy.
The 402 PPI makes sense in that context. It's like the difference between printing borderless or not when printing to one of the Epson DYE ink printers. They also set a bizarre-sounding PPI figure but it's for the same reason. The printer driver "stretches" the print slightly to give a bit of bleed past the edges of the paper to assure true borderless.
Of course, the actual PPI applied to the paper still ends up being (I believe) 360 for those printers.
If in doubt, a person could experiment a bit and open the resulting files in Photoshop or another editor to see what the PPI ended up being just to make sure you're getting what you want.
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Jim H.
Qimage will then automatically set the resolution of its output correctly. That's the beauty of Qimage. It really does make life easy.
The 402 PPI makes sense in that context. It's like the difference between printing borderless or not when printing to one of the Epson DYE ink printers. They also set a bizarre-sounding PPI figure but it's for the same reason. The printer driver "stretches" the print slightly to give a bit of bleed past the edges of the paper to assure true borderless.
Of course, the actual PPI applied to the paper still ends up being (I believe) 360 for those printers.
If in doubt, a person could experiment a bit and open the resulting files in Photoshop or another editor to see what the PPI ended up being just to make sure you're getting what you want.
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Jim H.
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