Printing components /resolution

hi folks,
i'm testing printouts from a JPanel including a JTable of my program with printables.
the tables size is too big so that i tried to resize it by calling the graphics2D scale() method.
Unfortunately the printout then looks like "fog", it's not readable.
Is there any method known to improve the printouts resolution (maybe by interpolating) or is it necessary to create a bigger JTable with bigger fonts and then scaling it?

What type of printer? For presentation prints like yours which are usually printed on an inkjet printer, a final full size resolution of 100-150 dpi will print just fine. For fine art high res photos, you would probably want more. Try building your base file at 32 X 48 at 125-150 dpi and you should be fine.

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Question about printing and resolution

Hello
I am trying out a trial version of PE13 and am attempting to come to terms with printing and resolution.
I have also read this informative tutorial here:
How Image Resolution Affects Print Quality - Photoshop Tutorial
This is the image I would like to print:
In the tutorial referred to above, the author states that when printing, 300 resolution is best and not the 79.3 px/inch that I have. When I change that 79.3 to 300, the image of Marilyn becomes tiny, so my question is how can I have an image that would neatly fit onto A4 photo paper maybe with a 1" white border around it (meaning the image size would be 8" x 6") while retaining a 300 resolution?
Am I going about this the right way, aren't I?
Many thanks.
Steve

Steve,
The most important thing about resolution is the dimension in pixels.
Your original is 433 x 653 pixels. Just good enough to display on a normal laptop.
With A4 format at 300 ppi, you'd need:
21 / 2.54 * 300 = 2480 pixels wide
29.7 / 2.54 * 300 = 3507 pixel high.
Any image editor won't be able to add the missing resolution, but the solution is to let the editor guess the missing pixels by interpolation methods.
You won't get more details than those present in the original file, but you'll get a smoother, non 'pixelated' image.
In the Elements editor, you have to check the 'resample' checkbox to be able to keep the outpur size while increasing the ppi to 300.

Office 7500A E910 prints high resolution document in 1/4 size

I am trying to print a 25 Mb A4-size document full of pictures in a 300 dpi resolution from Adobe photoshop (PC-version) to my newly aquired Officejet 7500A Wide format networked printer. The documents prints to another printer (HP 2800 laserjet) without any problems. With the 7500A, it prints successfully when I print with the below normal quality selected in the paper/quality print choice, but when I choose normal or best quality, the document is scaled down to the upper quarter corner of the A4 paper I print to.
I have tried to print to high quality hp papers (eg. the HP premium plus paper) without any difference shown. I am using color printing. The original I am printing from is black/white-pictures, however, but I assume this is not the reason?
If I print from Photoshop to a high quality pdf-file, then print that at 600 dpi to my officejet 7500A, the file prints ok. The resulting pdf file is 4,5 Mb, can file size be the issue?
Since I bought this printer to print high resolution photographs in a large format, I really hope someone can help me...

I am trying to print a 25 Mb A4-size document full of pictures in a 300 dpi resolution from Adobe photoshop (PC-version) to my newly aquired Officejet 7500A Wide format networked printer. The documents prints to another printer (HP 2800 laserjet) without any problems. With the 7500A, it prints successfully when I print with the below normal quality selected in the paper/quality print choice, but when I choose normal or best quality, the document is scaled down to the upper quarter corner of the A4 paper I print to.
I have tried to print to high quality hp papers (eg. the HP premium plus paper) without any difference shown. I am using color printing. The original I am printing from is black/white-pictures, however, but I assume this is not the reason?
If I print from Photoshop to a high quality pdf-file, then print that at 600 dpi to my officejet 7500A, the file prints ok. The resulting pdf file is 4,5 Mb, can file size be the issue?
Since I bought this printer to print high resolution photographs in a large format, I really hope someone can help me...

Book print quality, resolution, presets, etc...

I just ordered my first book from Apple and was overall disappointed by the quality. Colors and contrast a bit cheap, apparent loss of resolution, some banding in the sky, etc... Nothing like what i get with my home printer (canon 9900).
So i looked a bit more into the issue and wondered whether, among other things, there was not an issue with the Output PDF file. I tried comparing a picture at full magnification between aperture (from the original Raw file) and preview (from the Output PDF file) and i could indeed notice a huge difference in resolution, which was much lower on the PDF.
Then i asked myself whereas there could be something to tune with the export presets. On the preset list (on the right of the export preset window), the "JPEG - Fit within 1024x1024" was indeed highlighted, with a DPI of 72 and quality of 8... So i created a "PDF Book" preset, with Jpeg - Original size, max quality (12) and set DPI at 300. And "selected" it...
I recreated the PDF file, and much to my excitement, size moved from 150 Megs to 250 Megs. But deception quickly took over as a close look at a picture within the new PDF showed a similar loss of resolution, with color and micro-contrast having slightly shifted compared to first PDF.
Final test, to be sure that i was not comparing tomatoes and, well.. apples, i created a jpeg file from the raw file with that same "PDF book" preset. And in Preview it looked just like the Raw in aperture, much better apparent resolution when viewed at full size than what i got from the PDF.
Sorry for having been a bit longish, hope ur still with me
Here are my comments/questions :
- As for the comments, i concur with other previous posts on the erratic character of the apple book output. I would not at that stage recommend it to anyone who has a need beyond sharing vacation or party pics with friends or family. For reference, this book was ordered in Japan.
- Now my test leaves me with as many questions as answers. Something i found out (maybe i was not the first one but i could not find previous post on the topic) is that Export preset settings do have an influence over the Output PDF. But still i could not get where i wanted to...
- So my dearest wish today would be to have someone to tell me how i can have the same quality (apparent resolution, etc...) in the pics embedded in the PDF as the one i get when i export a file from aperture into a full size/full quality jpeg.
Otherwise, you can't even use the cool book edition tool of Aperture, and you are just back to going into Adobe illustrator directly...
Thanks for your comments and answers.
YM

I've only printed "mini" books from Apple, and was actually pretty pleased at overall look, the res...the color and tonal matching, was surprisingly accurate as it was on screen in the book preview. But the mini books are really tiny, so resolution flaws, I would think, would be masked. I don't think I yet trust printing in a bigger size with Apple. Actually, I can't figure out how to, in Aperture, get a paper back, like the mini, at a larger page size. It doesn't seem to have that option. I won't buy iphoto 8 just to do that. I'll just go to Asuka or some other printer. But was wondering if I'm missing settings in Aperture.

Printing & Screen Resolution

I am able to print from an applet or an application, but the output always depends on the user's screen resolution. As screen resolution decreases (as fonts get larger), the printed area decreases. Is there a way around this so that the printed area is independent of screen settings?

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Problem printing components

[reposted from Java programming forum]
Hi. I have subclassed a JTable, and made it implement Printable. If I have one of these components (with several rows and columns of data), and print it out (using a PrinterJob), it prints out fine 90% of the time.
The other times, some strange things happen. For example, some sections of the table will be missing... or it will cut off at the bottom (even though a footer will print successfully)... or just the right-most portion will print... And it's not that it's only whole table cells that are removed: sometimes the break is in the middle a cell, with the first two and a half characters of the data showing up on the page, for an entire column, etc.
This seems to happen to other subclassed swing components, as well. I'm not totally sure, but it looks like the problem is more likely to happen when there is more data on the component (i.e. more cells in a table). The same thing is happening with a SimpleChart we have subclassed (com.klg.jclass.chart.beans.SimpleChart from JClass); i.e., when there are many points on a graph.
Also, this is not restricted to any particular printer.
Does anyone know why would this happen?
Thanks,
SigurRos

Hi, I have the same problem, i.e. when printing a large report, sometimes it misses pages, or column dividing lines. If you find any solutions, please post it here. Thanks.

Print Library - resolution dropped

Once upon a time the resolution of album art when using Print > Album listing was quite good. I don't print a paper copy, that would be wasteful, but sending it to a PDF distiller would result in a very nice looking file with clean, sharp album art.
With some latest version of iTunes (couldn't say exactly when this changed), printing an Album listing looks wretched. The text and iTunes-supplied graphics are fine, but the album art looks horrible. I have even tried printing one page direct from iTunes to an Epson R1800, looks as bad as the PDF output. Tweaked all my PDF settings (Press Quality with Optimize For Fast Web View turned off), no change.
So at some point iTunes started sending rotten resolution to the printer.
All my album art (with a couple of exceptions) looks fantastic in iTunes. I can scale Cover Flow quite large and they still look pretty good (and yes, I understand the difference between screen and print resolution). Most of the album art I found myself via image search or other websites - I try to stay around 600x600 dpi. So a 1.5" square tile on an Album listing printout should look fantastic.
What happened? I have old PDFs of old libraries that look great. Are those days over? Paperless society or not, I'd still like to be able to get a nice-looking PDF.

What format are these reports? If you are suing JDK 6, check out the java.awt.Desktop class. It uses your OS's supported functions to do options such as print, browse, mail, open, edit, etc.
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/desktop_api/

Printing components

Hi, here is my problem of the day:
I have a swing app which draws nifty histograms. Each histogram is a JPanel with other JPanels inside, two for the axes, one for the legend, one for the graphics, and so on, down to the single histogram bars which are JPanels themselves. Now I need to print the whole picture. If, in my Printable object, I call the paint method of the outmost JPanel, nothing is printed. I guess this is because the outmost JPanel is only a container for other panels. However I don't know how to print all the contained components. Yes, I could iterate through them and call paint() for each one, but this way I have to compute the layout myself in order to transform and clip the Graphics object. I wonder if there's a way to reuse the swing code (which is for sure more reliable than mine).
Lucio.

Hi, here is my problem of the day:
I have a swing app which draws nifty histograms. Each histogram is a JPanel with other JPanels inside, two for the axes, one for the legend, one for the graphics, and so on, down to the single histogram bars which are JPanels themselves. Now I need to print the whole picture. If, in my Printable object, I call the paint method of the outmost JPanel, nothing is printed. I guess this is because the outmost JPanel is only a container for other panels. However I don't know how to print all the contained components. Yes, I could iterate through them and call paint() for each one, but this way I have to compute the layout myself in order to transform and clip the Graphics object. I wonder if there's a way to reuse the swing code (which is for sure more reliable than mine).
Lucio.

Captivate 8 print widget does not print in landscape; prints full resolution of project and not just the certificate?

I am new to Captivate and am tasked with learning how to use Captivate 8. I need to add a certificate of completion to the end of my project and have many questions for which I cannot find any answers! Please, if anyone can answer these:
1) I do not want the certificate to be printed until the score of the quiz reaches a specific minimum - for example, you need a score of 80% or better to print a certificate. How do I do this with the print widget?
2) I want the certificate to print out without the slide background and without the project's resolution - in other words, I only want the certificate image (with added text box for name) to print, IN LANDSCAPE, without the user having to make all the adjustments on their end (choosing landscape over portrait with their printer). How is this accomplised?
3) I want a date entered on the certificate - how do I add this specific element?
Without a certificate widget and the use of Flash with this version, I am confused as to how exactly Captivate provides the ability to print certificates? I do not know HTML5, and am spotty with Javascript. Why would a feature such as certificates and the ability to print them be such a clandestine thing? No tutorials, no clear advice on how exactly to achieve this widely popular feature of training material development. Seems to me that it should be MUCH easier to accomplish, but I'm stumped at this point.

The solution I found is this:
Don't use the print widget in Captivate 8. It simply does not work the way it should be able to work. Unless you are capable of scripting in Actionscript 2.0 and have access to an older version of Captivate, there is no way to get around this bug.
The problem I discovered is that Captivate 8 will only allow you to use Actionscript 3.0 in Flash; you can open the widget in Flash, but you MUST open it through Captivate first if you intend to use it in Captivate. So, once you open the widget for adjustments through Captivate, it automatically chooses AS 3.0 as the scripting language to use, no other choice is available. IF you have Captivate 7 or lower, however, it allows you to script in AS 2.0. I do not, so I cannot assist you in scripting the widget.
What I ended up doing was, I made my own certifcate in Photoshop, saved it as a .PNG, and added it to the last page. Using the internal coding of Captivate I told the program to only go to that slide upon success of the quiz.
To Print: go to Window > Skin Editor. On the left are check boxes for playbar choices - check off 'Show Playback Control,' and then choose your theme. From the dropdown, choose "print." If you don't want anything else on the playbar, then check those items off; Choose where you want the playbar to show (I chose bottom and bottom center). See below:
You can see the icons on the bottom, in the center. The icon to the left is the Print button. This works well, though you may have to make print choices from your local print dialog. I have to tell it to print landscape, for instance, otherwise it prints portait and too small. But this does work, and it solves the issue of non-working print widgets.

Print quality / resolution for iPhoto books

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I am getting ready to upload my first iPhoto book for printing, and a colleague told me to beware of a potential issue. After searching these forums, and searching Google, I found that people in the past (perhaps prior to iPhoto '08?) have had print quality problems when printing 8.5 x 11 books vs. 6x10 books.
Basically, we are creating an 8.5 x 11 book and will have several books printed by Apple. At some point in the future, we will make similar books at the 6x10 size. Will the photos that are included in the books print at similar quality?
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I have ordered books in the past that were made up of photos 1600 x 1200 pixels in dimension and they came out fine. HOWEVER, I had no pages with a photo filling the entire page as Larry warned about.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.≤br>
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Printing components found on a JPanel

hy,
I have created a JPanel, where I have inserted some buttons
onto it. How can I print the contents of the JPanel (That is
print the buttons found on the JPanel
thanks

OK, its like this... with a JLayeredPane you have a DRAG_LAYER which is used to handle this type
of activity... by promoting the component to this layer you are gauranteed that it will be painted last, (ie..
overpaint the other layers.)
In order to model this type of behaviour, you will need to:
1) Override your panel's panitComponents() method and paint all except the active panel..
2) Finally send the paintComponent() to the active component...
:)

How do I maintain print quality resolution when using both Lightroom and Photoshop?

I usually edit only in LIghtroom, but in this recent photoshoot, the woman's skirt lining was peeking out and I need to photoshop it out. When I try to do this and save it in Photoshop, the file size drops dramatically and I'm guessing the picture quality. I also tried to right-click on the picture in Lightroom and choose "Edit in" photoshop, but Photoshop told me I couldn't use the clone tool unless I changed from 16 bit color depth to 8 bit because it had limited support for 16 bit. I know there has to be a way to do this. Any ideas? By the way, I am using LIghtroom 3.6 and an old Photoshop Elements 5.0.

Isacksen
I am not completely convinced that your Premiere Elements 7 project settings are not at the core of your problems.
1. You say that you have 1280 x 720 at X progressive frames per second (probably .mov) from a Canon camera and presumed 1920 x 1080 16:9 .mts @ 29.97 interlaced frames per second (aka 60i). What are you setting as the project preset in the new project dialog? Are you just OK'd it and accepting the default which would be NTSC DV Standard (720 x 480)?
2. As for versions 11 and 12 helping you out with an automatic project preset, sometimes it does it OK and sometimes it does not. So, that feature is not a given cure all for an inappropriate project preset. Whatever the Premiere Elements version, you need to know the properties of your source media and set the project preset accordingly or make sure the program is doing it right. And, when you have a Timeline with a mixed of formats, you need to set priorities.
Is the .mov and .mts both affected by the issue or just one?
Three things to look at:
a. The quality of just the 1280 x 720 in a Premiere Elements 7 project set for
NTSC
HDV
HDV 720p30
b. The quality of just the1920 x 1080 in a Premiere Elements 7 project set for
NTSC
AVCHD
Full HD 1080p30
c. Then look at the quality of both brought into a Premiere Elements 7 project set for
NTSC
AVCHD
Full HD 1080p30
Please consider. And, if you decide to check out the above, please let us know the outcome.
Thank you.
ATR

No Printer Resolution Options for hp LaserJet Enterprise 600 M601

Running under Mac OS 10.6.8, we've run into a problem printing separations to our new hp LaserJet Enterprise 600 m601 printer from Illustrator CS4, CS5 and CS6.
In the printer dialog box, once under the "Output" section, with the mode set to either "Separations" or "In-RIP Separations", there are no options listed in the "Printer Resolution" drop-down.
I've tried re-installing the driver, changing the resolution settings in the printer itself, using a generic PS driver, and contacting hp directly (their solution was to contact Adobe). I have yet to contact Adobe itself, but none of my other attempts netted a different result.
In the document ink listing, the Frequency and Angle listings are still editable, but needs to be done manually for every colour, and the dot shape options are non-existant.
We had previously been using a hp LaserJet 2300n, but we were running into insufficient memory issues on an increasingly frequently basis. The driver for the 2300n had several different sets of Printer Resolution settings, so once the new printer was set up, I *assumed* that it would have the same kind of options.
I have discovered that if I change my PPD from the proper driver (HP LaserJet 600 M601 M602 M603) to the old one (Hp LaserJet 2300) I am then able to select the resolution I want from the drop-down list, switch the PPD back to the proper one for the M601, and it seems to work (leaving the 2300 as the PPD file results in a warning and a failed print attempt).
I also tried printing something from a non-Adobe program using the M601, and there were two options available for printer quality (resolution?) settings.
Any thoughts?

Re instakll the printers driver first remove the printer from the printer list.
My only thought!

How to get Safari printing images in proper resolution?

I have problems printing high resolution images from a web page.
Example: When printing a 300 dpi image that measures 5 x 6 inches Safari rescales this image to a resolution of about 282 dpi which results in a slightly larger image. The web page contains CSS definitions with the correct image size. It is suspicious that the printed images always seem to be rescaled by 6.348%. I tried different CSS definitions and page structures with the same result.
When the CSS definition for the image size is increased by 6.348% the resolution and image size fits the original values and dimensions.
What about this magical 6.348%?
The problem is verified on 10.4.11 and 10.5 with Safari 3.0.1 on different machines with all kind of images in every resolution you can think of, with different printer drivers (but I do not think this is relevant) - all images are rescaled by this magic factor. I tried all kind of printer settings, took a look at the Library plists related to printing ... Please help me.
It is weird that Safari offers ICC support for color proof matches but is not able to print an image with its correct resolution/dimensions. Firefox for example does not touch the image resolution, why the heck Safari does?

Hi Ned,
Website builders are using maximum 75 DPI images. These are to small i quality for other use when you are looking for quality images. The reason for using images in small size like 75 DPI is to prevent that the website is getting to big in size, an for using them on the internet they are good enough for best viewing.
QuickTimeKirk is right to get better images from a website. If the developer is NOT offering a downloadble better quality you have to do it with the on they offer.
Dimaxum

Printing picture in low resolution

I want to print Logo in Label Printer. But it is printing in low resolution.
The dimensions of the Picture are 1,5 cm x 1,5 cm.
When I insert the picture (dimensions 317 pixels x 292 pixels) in CR , I change Xscaling and Yscaling.
When I printing CR, the picture is printing in resolution 62 pixels x 57 pixels.
I want to print Logo in high resolution.
Help me, please.

My version is Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2003 .NET service pack 1
Thank you very much, but in this version not exists this Check.¿?
I have installed Crystal Reports 2008 (Trial versión), have open proyect VS and have printing picture in high resolution.
I have installed Hotfix CR and all updates Visual Studio 2003 .NET
I do not believe that it is necessary to change the version to solve this problem.
Regards,
David
Edited by: Navarro, David on Feb 11, 2010 11:51 AM

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