Printing 101

[aam1234]

Cheers Tom. Thanks for the link.

But for geopolitical* reasons I'd rather buy from Amazon direct.

* Felt like saying that word, hope you don't mind

[Tom Swaman]

aam1234,

You are always welcome and "geo" or "no geo" you can have all of our politicals!.Something tells me this is understandable in many languages.

Tom

[aam1234]

Ha ha. You are bader than me, Tom

[Tom Swaman]

aam1234,

Is that "bader" a geopolitical froum Deutschland? <ay we are both bader. Have a wonderful weekend.

Tom

[aam1234]

Update.

Got the prints from Mpix. In short...I'm impressed. Really pleased how they came out and the quality of paper. Though they seem a bit dark but have to verify that against the screen later.

Two things I forgot to do but not sure how important they are, so kindly advice:

- When converting to jepg in DPP I don't use the highest quality but one level lower (9 instead of 10), so the uploaded files were around 6MB instead of around 12MB. Will that have an affect on the prints.

- Didn't do additional sharpening, just how the files were during conversion (usually 4 in DPP), yet they came out sharp and crisp. Will I benefit if I sharpened them more.

Thanks

[jfrancho]

Will that have an affect on the prints.

I save as in CS2 a jpeg quality 10 (12 is the highest) and can't tell the difference in prints. It saves me about 25% in upload times.

Didn't do additional sharpening, just how the files were during conversion (usually 4 in DPP), yet they came out sharp and crisp. Will I benefit if I sharpened them more.

Maybe, maybe not. Truthfully, I haven't been resizing my images to exactly 300 ppi and resharpening them for print, and I have been satisfied with the results.

[aam1234]

Thanks, John.