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How to get good prints from 740i...
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: New Jersey, USA
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I have an Epson 740i and it prints very well, but I tried getting some photo paper to print some pictures I scanned and edited, but they came out kind of blocky. It was hard to distinguish the facial features and other resolution problems. I used the sample photo paper that came with the printer and I set the printer box to high quality (I think 720dpi, something like that). Are there any settings I missed on the scan or print or anything? Or is this printer just not up to the task?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I'm not sure if you can get good prints from a car, even an expensive german one, but you can get good a$$ in the right part of town. 
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Apple: bumping prices, not specs.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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but I tried getting some photo paper to print some pictures I scanned and edited
Yea, but what dpi did you scan them at?? And you should save them as a .tif file, instead of .jpg This will prevent compression. You should be scanning at 250-300 dpi, bare minimum.
[ 07-14-2001: Message edited by: Bugs Bunny ]
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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When I scan, I go at 300dpi or more if I want to print larger than the original. When I use my digital camera, I take the pictures that default at 72dpi at a 16x24 size and use Photoshop to increase the dpi to 300 while reducing the size to 8x10 or less. The pictures come out great that way. I'm sure your problem is the dpi of the picture, not the printer setting.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Originally posted by Euphrates:
<STRONG>I have an Epson 740i and it prints very well, but I tried getting some photo paper to print some pictures I scanned and edited, but they came out kind of blocky. It was hard to distinguish the facial features and other resolution problems. I used the sample photo paper that came with the printer and I set the printer box to high quality (I think 720dpi, something like that). Are there any settings I missed on the scan or print or anything? Or is this printer just not up to the task?</STRONG>
You can find excellent tips on scanning and printing here: http://www.scantips.com/
Matt
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Ok, thanks everyone. I checked out scantips.com, it looks very good so far. Maybe the DPI was it. I will check how I scanned them and make them tiffs next time and get the best prints a 740i has ever seen 
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