Have you ever try rendering with the Render animation? When i use this method so i can use Bryce Lightning, Bryce is saving the render has avi. When i open in Corel Photo-Paint and do a copy paste since i want the picture out of the AVI i get a 102 DPI out of it. Better then the 72 DPI you get with the normal screen render. And i agree with Jval. If the output is web, so having the default render for 72 DPI is ok. For printing depend on how big is the print, i am rendering a picture to disk the size of 36 x 24 inch at 300 DPI (this is movie poster size). But if i would render the same picture at 8.5 x 11 inch (letter size of course), with what i have read, the DPI render to disk would be around 200 to 240 DPI. I am printing with an Epson Stylus Photo 1280. DenisG