Printing Tips

I recommend printing at 100% scale. If you need to scale your image for a final print, I suggest scaling the image in Photoshop followed up with a bit of sharpening to mitigate the softening that results from resampling. High-speed printing usually designates bidirectional printing (where the print head prints during both the left-to-right and right-to-left passes), which can sometimes reduce the accuracy of the printing and lower print quality. Test this by printing using both methods and closely viewing the results. If there is no discernable difference, use the bidirectional mode. Image quality sometimes suffers with the use of bidirectional printing due to a slight misalignment or difference in alignment and therefore placement of ink dots on the forward and backward passes of the ink-jet head. Less expensive printers, which have less accurate head tracking mechanisms, tend to exhibit more problems with bidirectional printing