JettBoy opened this issue on Jan 17, 2003 ยท 17 posts
hogwarden posted Fri, 17 January 2003 at 10:20 AM
We really need a FAQ on "Digital Pixels per Inch". In fact DPI is a myth. It's not relevant at all unless the image is to be printed on professional (and old!) production printing equipment. DPI is a measure of pixel size... not something monitors and video cards are interested in. If you render at a resolution of 1000x1000 pixels, it doesn't matter a jot what you set the DPI to. It will always be 1000x1000 pixels, and will look exactly the same on screen. The screen is fixed at a DPI calculateable from it's dimensions and resolution. DPI does not effect file size, resolution does. When you print the image, you or your software will resize the image to fit the paper... (Tygercubs printers will have done this) Printers are so advanced these days that DPI doesn't come into it. DPI values are stored in some image formats... so software developers think they should allow us access to changing or specifying the DPI. Makes an extra pretty box on the screen. Cool. Yep... if you're printing a 2M*4M banner on a budget, chances are the printing equipment might need a set DPI... but you can set this in your paint program before you send the image off. It doesn't need to be set in Poser. Really, the printers should be able to resize the pixel size of the image to fit the paper. So unless your printing house specifies a particular DPI... Enough with the DPI already! It doesn't matter! Just ignore it! H:))