I've placed several graphic PSD images in an indesign document. I have 2 logos both psd. When printing (we have a Xerox color printer), My logos are pixelated while the other graphics look perfectly fine. The logos are 300 dpi psd files. If we export the document into a pdf then convert it into a high res Jpg, we don't get the pixelation. Any ideas why this is happening?
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I looks like you might have increased the physical (print) size of the image resulting in a bad graphic. You might also make sure that the PSD is cmyk, not rgb.
Logos - with letters and/or words in them are more generally done in vectors to preserve legibility and sharpness, while allowing resizing. If the logos have letters/words, try boosting resolution to 1200-1800, allowing photoshop to do some interpolation, and not increasing physical size.
If the logo was originally an eps, you might consider opening it in a vector app and making changes there.
You could also see if the pdf prints well.
Logos - with letters and/or words in them are more generally done in vectors to preserve legibility and sharpness, while allowing resizing. If the logos have letters/words, try boosting resolution to 1200-1800, allowing photoshop to do some interpolation, and not increasing physical size.
If the logo was originally an eps, you might consider opening it in a vector app and making changes there.
You could also see if the pdf prints well.
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Color mode will have nothing to do with resolution output.
If the logos have letters/words done with Photoshop vector type, export as a PDF file to retain the crisp vector data. PSDs do not retain the vector data when placed in InDesign. There is no need to bloat your filesize with excess resolution.
I would double check your print settings as Yoderman94 notes and also make sure that the 300 dpi graphic is not scaled excessively large as jmgalvin notes.
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I've done the recomendations, rescaling the image to the appropriate size, changed it to CMYK, made it to a higher resolution, but still have the same problem. We've printed it using postcript 2 and 3 with no luck. we may think its our printer as yoderman94 has expressed.
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