The problem comes from the fact that dpi (dot per inch, and used for
printing)) and ppi (pixel per inch and used for video display) are often
used interchangeably.
Say you have a photo at 5000 x 4000 pixels.
Your screen display is set at either 72 or 96 ppi.
Thus 5000/72= 69.4 and 4000/72= 55.5 inches.
This means that at 72 ppi, you could fill a screen of 69.4 x 55.5 inches.
The displayed photo would look pretty bad. Instead, the software works to
place this photo to fit your screen size, and it looks very good.
Now you want to print. Can you print at 69.4 x 55.5 inches. The answer is
yes (provided you have a printer that can do this), but the print would be
terrible.
To print, a rule of thumb is you need 300 dpi for a great print.
So for the above photo you have:
5000/300= 16.6 and 4000/300= 13.3 inches.
You can reduce this 300 dpi to about 200 dpi and still get a fairly good
print. Below 200 the quality will deteriorate rapidly.
So, with your tif file, look at the pixel dimensions of the file. This will
tell you (using 300 dpi as a start) how large a high quality print you can
make.
There is no reason to use Paint for editing or printing. It is just too old
and so much free software is available to do this much better.
"Dmitry Kopnichev" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
news:uXWwkFF5FHA.884@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Resolution is number of dots per inch. Pixel dimensions are the size in
> pixels. They are different things.
> If you think it is impossible, then try yourself, scan a A4 sheet with 600
> dpi resolution to a 1bit tif and try to print it from Paint with 100% size
> in the Page setup. Paint will print just 1/6 of the image.
> I did not write about size on screen, but about size on a printed paper.
> I do not want to "Select the print size", I want the Pain to print with
the
> original size stated in a tif.
> "yves alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее:
> news:OSltkyE5FHA.1148@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Pixel dimensions and resolution are the same thing!
> > Paint does not print anything 6+ times larger. Impossible.
> > What you see from Paint is the size that your image would occupy on your
> > screen, at 96 dpi, with the number of pixels contained in your image
file.
> > Nothing more and nothing less. Paint does not print anything. It simply
> > tranfers the file to your printer. Select the print size.
> > Get some free software from here to edit and print your images:
> > www.faststone.org
> > and forget about Paint.
> >
> > "Dmitry Kopnichev" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
> > news:%23GhOoxC5FHA.4036@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > >I did not write about pixel dimensions, I wrote about resolution. The
> Paint
> > > changes resolution and length dimensions of a scanned image, not pixel
> > > dimensions, therefore, Paint prints a 600 dpi image 6+ times larger.
> > > "Yves Alarie" <rd50@@pitt.edu> сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее:
> > > news:uM5fnM84FHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > >> I don't think anything is wrong.
> > >> The 96 dpi displayed by Paint is simply your monitor display.
> > >> Open the Properties of the file and check the pixel dimensions of it.
> It
> > >> should have the same pixel dimensions as the original file, say,
> > >> something
> > >> like:
> > >> 1200 x 800.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> "Dmitry Kopnichev" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
> > >> news:eshXZf54FHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > >> > Hello
> > >> > How to stop MS Paint changing resolution of b&w tif files from 600
to
> > >> > 96
> > >> > dpi? After editing the 600 dpi files in MS Paint and saving them
the
> > > files
> > >> > become 96 dpi.
> > >> >
> > >> >
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> > >>
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