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Defining native printer resolution - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Defining native printer resolution
All inkjet printers have a native resolution. Now, this is different from 1440 or 2880 printer dot resolution numbers that you might have seen. Remember, there is not a one-to-one correspondence between printer dots and the pixels in your image. Instead, you have to group a certain number of printer dots together to get a single screen pixel. By the time you've grouped printer dots of a certain size into screen-pixel equivalents, you'll have a certain number of those screen-pixel-equivalent groups across a given distance. This is the printer's native image resolution or just native resolution. Anytime you send a print to the printer and that print is not set to the printer's native resolution, then the printer driver will resample it to the printer's native resolution. For example, if you have your image set to 200 pixels per inch at 8 x 10 and the printer's native resolution is 300, then the printer driver will resample. It will interpolate and upscale that image to 8 x 10 at 300…
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Understanding pixels, printer dots, and resolution2m 44s
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Understanding resolution2m 33s
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Defining resampling and interpolation3m 41s
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Understanding where resizing fits into your workflow2m 12s
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Defining native printer resolution2m 39s
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Understanding the relationship between viewing distance and print size2m 1s
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Reducing image size in Photoshop9m 11s
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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size4m 34s
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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using the Crop tool5m 15s
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Enlarging an image in Photoshop7m 7s
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Creating a triptych3m 55s
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Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac4m 5s
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Exploring the aesthetics of print size4m 39s
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