

Scanning: It will also show the output image size created if the area is scanned at the dpi resolution.Printing: It will show the required image size (pixels) to print this paper size at the dpi resolution.ģ000x2400 pixels printed at 300 dpi will print.This first simple calculator will serve two general purposes: The simple calculation for that acceptable image size for printing is: And we need to provide the necessary pixels. Different paper sizes are different shape. Sufficient pixels is important, but first cropping the image so that the image SHAPE actually matches the selected paper SHAPE is also a very important concern. A home photo editor "fit" typically is the opposite by default, not cropping at all, but leaving thin white space in one dimension if it doesn't fit precisely.Įither way, it is good if your plan properly prepares the image for printing. When the print and paper shapes differ, a print shop "fit" typically fills all of the paper, fitting one dimension to leave no unfilled white space border in the other. The image "shape" (which is width / height, called Aspect Ratio) likely rarely matches the paper "shape", which always needs attention first. Images have both size and shape properties. But it will not necessarily fit the paper "shape", which requires cropping attention done by you. This scaling will print at a new dpi which will fit the paper size.

This can be borderless if so specified in the printer Properties.

However, most photo editors will also provide an option to "Scale to fit media" or "Best fit to page", which will scale the image to fit the specified paper size (similar to the labs above). Hopefully, you have already properly scaled the image for your selected paper size. The dpi number that your digital camera initially stores in the image file is far from meaningful, it is just some arbitrary number, which will print SOME size, but not likely to be your own printing goal. For example, if an image dimension is 3000 pixels, then specifying that file number as 300 dpi printing resolution will print it to be 3000/300 = 10 inches print size (even if the paper is 4圆). But it typically will also allow changing that dpi, called scaling (to fit the paper size).
