How To Print 4r Photo Size

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It's a matter of the differences in the resolution that the image was scanned in and the resolution it's being printed in. It takes a while to get your head wrapped around what's going on but try thinking of it this way. You start out by scanning an image that's 4"x4". You tell the scanner to scan the image at 400 DPI (Actually it should be designated as LPI, lines per inch). The resulting file will be of an image that's 1600x1600 pixels. Scanners don't know from inches, they only know pixel dimensions.

Now when you go to print the image your printing or editing software may be set to print at 200 DPI/LPI. So every 200x200 pixel area of your image will occupy a 1"x1" area of your print. As a result your 1600x1600 pixel image makes a print that's 8"x8" instead of your original 4"x4" size.

Inkjets like around 300 DPI/LPI to make good quality prints. If you want your print to be the same size as your original, or smaller, set your scanning resolution to 300 DPI/LPI. Then in your printer or editing software check the document size and set the resolution to 300 DPI/LPI without resampling the image. This should give you a print the same size as your original.

If you haven't already, spend some time reading up on your scanner and printer or editing software user guides.

Thanks for the reply, BurnUnit. I scanned at 300 dpi, but there is no printer setting for dpi or lpi. There are only settings for paper size. (My printer is Pixma MX922. Still getting 3.5x5 photo printing to fill letter size paper. In other words, original image is enlarged.

Are you printing from Photoshop, one of the Canon print utilities or from some other photo editing software? I would think that any of them should allow you a means to set the size of your prints. There just may be different ways of accessing the menus for these settings.

I can print photos from my Android phone using the HP app, but I cannot figure how or if there is a way to choose the output size i.e. 5x7" as opposed to full page printing. If it cannot be done thru the HP app, is there a 3rd party app that will allow that level of printer control?

When you get to the phone screen showing an image of the photo to be printed which also offers choices for Copies, Color Mode, Paper Size, and Orientation, choosing paper size does NOT allow customization of print size if the app is set to automatically detect the paper size in the tray - which is the default app setting. In order to change that, you have to type the 3-dots at the top right of that screen, go back into printer settings, choose paper and unselect "Detect Paper". That's an odd place (to say the least) to hide that setting...doesn't match the workflow. In any case, once that's done there are additional though still limited print sizes available.

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Thank you. My specific issue is being able to control the size of an image print independent of the size of the paper in the tray. Example: standard 8x11" paper is in the tray but I want to print the photo as 3x4" or 5x7". Can I control the size of the image via the HP app, and if not, is there a recommended 3rd party app that would allow me to do that?

When I'm home I'll trying faking out the printer...tell it it has 5x7 paper even though it doesn't and will see what happens. That may be the only way to get what I want done. I'll repost when I get the chance.

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I know that this will depend on the shot, the space, the subject, the room lighting, and hell probably even the weather, but where to start? Is there some information written about how to make this decision, or can someone offer some rules of thumb or even suggestions?

probably most images will handle 1 and 2 fine. Nearly anything hung in a gallery looks freaking awseome when lit up and surrounded by beautiful people. That's the function of a gallery, right? That and to confer the laurels of respect and therefore price. #1 and #2 have a lot of 'atmosphere' lent by the white walls, super cool concrete warehouse space, second glass of wine, etc. #1 in particular has a lot to do with just not messing up (i.e. hang the image straight on the wall) more than doing anything special.

I personally can't stand when supposedly 'professional' images can't deal with #3. I'm being a bit bombastic by saying magnifier close, but I am dead serious when I mean, really, really seriously looking at the physicality of the pigment on the paper close. I mean, you are a serious photographer right? Now we are talking about galleries here, not billboards or some other commercial application where it's understood that the image is there to pimp something else and you as photographer don't get the final say so corners might be cut for the man. In a gallery, it's 'art'--photographer in complete control. No cutting corners. Full on 100% integrety to the 'work'. Sacred space, etc.

To me, if you are on a gallery wall, you are saying you are a pro, like the real thing and you take it seriously and sweat the details--like "please, viewer, take a moment and really look, 'cos I worked really long and hard on this and thought about all the details and sweated mightly on this effort." So say you actually get someone who isn't just there as a pretense to pick up chicks, someone who is really engaging the work, who is willing to concentrate for like over a millisecond to really look at it. Well, you gotta meet that engagement all the way. And that to me means you gotta make the print quaility super mega high--magnifying glass close. It's just not meeting your end of the bargain to say it's only in bounds to stay 20" away. That's just not fair to those who are actually willing to focus. I mean, really? Diagonal of the print and no closer?

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