printing from canon Pixma ip4300

[ep82]

Hi All

Just a really quick Q.

If I scale down the image in photoshop, what resolution should I print at?

I want to print some photos out from my Canon Pixma ip4300. I have only ever printed 1 photo before and that was terrible!! I have used photoshop to scale the image size down to the size I want, then I noticed that the print was all pixel-y.

I know you can just press print and the printer will scale down for you. But what If I want to print 3 pictures on 1 A4??

I also know if you put the resolution up then the picture will be alot smoother. So can anyone tell me what I should set it at??

Say I took the image from my camera (400D) and scaled the image down to 10cm by 6cm. (283x189 pixels) shall I set the resolution to something like 200?? 300?? or more?

Thanks

[Marcel]

I always keep it at 300 if I can.

[andyred]

Have you changed any of the colour management / printer settings in photoshop, you maybe experiencing photoshop and your printer profiling processing it twice ?

Have you tried printing out your photo resized in photoshop and then saved as a JPEG / TIFF file using Canons printing software - I get good results with very little messing around printing directly via Canons software.

300dpi is considered optimum for printing :thumbs:

[admirable]

You don't meed to do any resizing, the printer software does it for you. Just select the print size (10 x 15cm or whatever) and it will print them off.