Watermarks are Unsharp in LR5

Hi everybody,
I'm getting completely crazy about my watermarks beeing unsharp on my photo's.
I'm using .png files for watermarking. I have tried multiple techniques as having a document as large as the picture,...
PLease help me
B.V.

Hi,
Thank you for your answer.
The size of my watermark is 2993 pixels wide.
When I edit the watermark, if I click on the size cursor, the watermark is sharp. When I click on other settings or export photos, it becomes unsharp.
Here are two printscreens of the sharp and unsharp .
The one on the right look a little bit blurry, and that's the output watermark...
The watermark is originally 2993 X 488 at 118 pixels per cm (i'm european)
The one in the two examples above is huge 12000 X... at 600 p/cm
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