Which DPI setting should I be using? - Fotospeed | Paper for Fine Art & Photography

Hello and welcome to this photo speed video with me Tim Jones, today what we're going to do is look at the print resolution and dpi of an image and does it really make any difference because on

paper

it

should

be like that, the higher the dpi The more dots of ink the printer will put on the page and the sharper and sharper the image

should

be. I have read a lot of research information in this video and to be honest I can't find any conclusive answers. so it's a little strange so I actually wanted to do a real world test and see if my eyes could actually see any difference between these different

setting

s on the printer so what I'm going to do is go print some tests resolution on the pro 1000 here behind me and I'm just going to print one on high and higher on a matte

paper

and on glossy

fine

art paper, so also on matte

fine

art paper,

which

is the first bright white and that of fine arts.

Glossy,

which

is the platinum sheen art fiber and I'm just going to compare the two to see if I can actually see what's going on and what's going on because I've also read and seen a couple of things that I apparently can. I don't really see beyond 1440 dpi. Now I don't know if this is true, so I'm interested to know if this is true and if I can actually see any difference between the two, because if we're printing at the highest resolution, that is. We will also use a little more ink than if we print at high temperature, so obviously this will be a big saving, so I just want to see if there really is a difference between the two, so let me explain. dpi, so ppi is what your computer screen runs on, which is pixels per inch and generally the native ppi of most printers, so for Canon it is 300 ppi and for Epson it is 360 ppi.

Now what this means is that it is the pixel data that we are sending to the printer. So we're sending 300 pixels per inch to the printer over your USB cable over your Wi-Fi as data and it will process it to dots per inch, which is the dpi. Now I have a couple of examples. I'll put it on the screen now, so it's kind of an explanation of what's happening now. I've gone to the extreme, so this first one here is 16 dpi, so there's a lot of squares in there, so it's 16 dots per inch, okay, so the next one I'm going to post now is 326 dpi, like this which, as you can see, there's a big difference, there's more dots coming down, much easier squares, there's a lot more ink coming down on that page and it's going to give a sharper look. image because the finer those dots are the better so we'll have a sharper image so there are two numbers we should look for when we look at printer specs if I pick up the pro 1000 that was behind me today. this has two numbers when I look at the specs on the printer breakdown on the Canon website, one is 2400 and the other is 1200 dpi.

Now what this means is that in one direction it will maintain a resolution of 1200 or 1200 dpi. Now 2400 is the horizontal dpi and 1200 is the vertical dpi now what this practically means is that the printer will print at that resolution all the time, you can say what changes is the speed with which the paper passes through the printer, so what it will do is make several passes to the same point on the paper to create a higher dpi, now the standard

setting

will be done quite quickly, then you have the high and the highest in the barrel, now on the highest setting , it's done very slowly so more passes are done effectively so in theory it should give a sharper impression because it's increasing the dpi, that's how I understand it, but to be honest these are just numbers for me, I don't know if you yourself are watching this video and thinking about all this. numbers flying around these ppis and dpis and what they really mean in real life now when it comes to real life testing all we want is a sharp image, a beautiful color and probably a deep black too.

For me, I really like a nice deep black. so those are the key things that I want, I want to keep it sharp and I want it to be the best quality possible, so Canon would have me believe with the pro 1000 that the best quality is going to be at the highest setting because it's going to give the highest dpi for me , which is great, that sounds logical to me, however what I want to do is if I can set it to the highest level and I can't really see any visible difference with my eyes, then surely it doesn't make sense.

I'm just going to use a little bit more ink, so that's the point of today, so let me make some test prints and then we'll take a look and see if I can see any difference between them. Well, I made these prints. I've printed one with the high settings on the canon and one with the highest settings, so in theory the higher settings will increase those dpi for me and get a better, sharper print. Well, now I didn't find one. of these resolution test charts on the internet they are absolutely fantastic, if you ever wanted to do this at home, okay, so what I'm interested in are these bottom squares here, really the colors and everything looks fantastic, the gray scale here It gives me a good indication.

If my profile is neutral, I'm pretty happy with all of this and the colors look great too and my cmyks down here and things like that look bright, very happy with that, so what I'm looking at is the resolution here and these. fine lines and I have to say on the map paper the first bright white here now. I have to look at them very, very carefully, to be honest, to see any difference in this paper, between the tallest and the tallest, um, I would. Saying that the taller one would probably be a bit sharper if you ever noticed it in a real world print is very debatable.

I don't think you'd notice. It's so slight, so let's switch to the shiny paper or the platinum shiny art fiber. I should say here again that everything looks nice and neutral in my grayscales. I have a lovely color here and everything looks as it should. In fact, I can see a difference between the high and the highest. It's a little sharper. I can see. with my eye again it is very marginal. I like to look at them for a long time to try to see this. You're getting the edited highlights here in the video, so it's very different now.

The other thing. I want to also look at something called a dot brain to see if that is affected at all by the resolution settings because in theory it should be. What is knit grain? You can see the little dots of ink, a little bit of grain in the film, let's say. So can we start to see those ink dots placed on this paper? So I'm going to use the solid squares to do this as well, like I said, I'm just going to use my eye. I'm not going to go into any kind of flash. Now I have another one.

I would say the higher one is smoother, there is less dot grain, so it will give you a smoother look, which is what I would expect, to be honest, the gains. going up to the highest they are marginal because at a3 at this size at 300 dpi going into the canon here there is a very marginal difference between the two if you could actually see the difference in the real world if you put a picture on the wall. I don't know if anyone would notice and it's also a little softer on the dark grain if you put it on the wall.

I don't know if anyone would notice because they don't have anything to compare it to, so that brings To my last point, it really comes down to what you'll notice in your personal choice with these settings, whether you're getting the desired results on standard or high or more high, then it's absolutely fine, it's up to you if you want to be calm, you should know that. what you're printing is going to be the best that the printer can produce, then put it on that maximum setting or the highest setting because that's going to give you the best quality.

Now your eye, not me, may not be able to see it, but it will be doing it. that for you and it will give you the best quality your printer can produce so I hope this was really helpful and hasn't confused you too much about what dpis and ppis are and as always if you enjoyed the video please subscribe to the channel just click on the subscribe button below and also if you have any comments or any questions just drop them in the comments below or email us and we will get back to you. See you soon, bye.