Printing directly from Photoshop – Quality is Terrible

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patty_ochoa
Feb 21, 2004
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Why is it that when I print directly from Photoshop it looks terrible? The fonts get all trashy looking, the graphics go down the tubes. I choose the best settings on my printer. Nothing seems to work. If I copy and paste it to another program it looks better than through PS, but the text is somewhat pixelated. I would like to print directly from PS so I get what I designed.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Mac_McDougald
Feb 21, 2004
As far as your fonts are concerned, if you leave them as text layer they have capability of printing as vector, but ONLY to a PostScript printer. Otherwise they will print just like rasterized fonts, quality is dependent on the ppi of the image at output size.

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LenHewitt
Feb 21, 2004
Patty,

Sounds as though your images are too low a resolution.

You need around 240 ppi min for best quality output to an inkjet printer…..

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