The new inkjet I purchased (canon pixma pro 9000 mark ii) has an 8 color dye based system and I can make ALOT better quality prints with it. One thing to mention, most color laser printers only have a few colors (CYMK) and to produce many of the color tones in the inner frames or even the card backing (such as the purple / blue ring around the larger circle) is very difficult to make with so few colors. Though the Lexmark blows the brothers out of the water when it comes to doing the direct face prints. I also gave up on printing to the face of cleaned cards.
Woogerboy21 wrote:Since my original posting above I actually purchased a new Lexmark laser (as I mentioned) and a better inkjet. Attachments Proxy Creation.zip (627 Bytes) Downloaded 678 times You'll find the final image size closely resembles the XLHQ but the MWS images already have the halftones removed. If you happen to use photoshop I have attached an action script that takes the MWS images and formats them for the size needed for printing. Heres a good read about digital images and sizing, printing, etc. It all breaks down to the actual image size in HxW (not dpi). Ive printed using 72-600 dpi images and there isn't a big difference in the results if the physical dimensions of the images support the physical size of the print your are trying to produce. That or the understanding of DPI/PPI is off slightly.
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Whomever made a comment about anything less than 600dpis looking terrible I'm thinking they've done something while working with lower size images in an attempt to format them to full card size that blurred the image. full and add additional solid black bordering around the edge to get the proper border size. It may sound kind of odd but try using the MWS images labeled with. Printing them will cause your print to look terrible. I'm using the images downloaded from here, from the XLQH folder.The XLHQ images I believe still have the halftones in the picture. (forum rules didn't allow me to post a direct link to the picture, sorry for that).Īs you can see in the picture, the art is very dark. That's the best result I could get so far: JotaPeRL wrote:That's some serious proxies you are doing! Very high quality. Woogerboy21 HQ Team Member Posts: 1136 Joined:, 00:15 Location: USA Has thanked: 21 times Been thanked: 152 times I forgot about this thread and been busy IRL. The problem is I have to actually apply a special layer of a product called ink aid in order to print to the card stock as it is not designed for ink based printing. Since my original posting above I actually purchased a new Lexmark laser (as I mentioned) and a better inkjet. If your using the older images, I've noticed the output is never as clear as the newer images and I don't know if that is something due too the actual processed images or if the quality of the card imagery back when was just that much worse.
If you want I can post a few sample of the output I get. I've bought and sold many printers testing the various output quality and found some print terribly and others print great still using the 300dpi images. Many times people try and print the raw scans that have the halftones in the images and that is what makes the printed images look terrible. I've used generated images from photoshop at higher resolution and there really isn't much difference in quality. I use the 300dpi images from here all the time and choose the DPI settings on my printer of a higher value for upscaling (600dpi on my brothers and 1200dpi on a new lexmark I just purchased).
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