Bad print quality of Photo

[Floribunda]

I need to print out some b x w photos at high quality in a collage. I scanned them in at 400 ppi (UMAX astra 1200). I then converted to jpeg (using Adobe Photodeluxe) and exported to MS Picture It to make the collage. When I went to print, I got repeated horizontal banding in the photos.

I tried other non-scanned photos from Photo Deluxe and they came out ok (no banding)

So I tried to rescan the original photo at 1200 ppi, thinking maybe resolution was the problem. I decided to print it straight from Photodeluxe. Well! The image was 72 MB and my printer (Canon BJC 3000) went into eternal spooling...never did print it.

I'm wondering if the problem has something to do with the way MSPictureIt sets up the printing process - it doesn't let you go into the printer properties, but has its own interface It merely says "best, better and good&quot

Any wisdom/experience would be greatly appreciated!

Judy

 

[Floribunda]

Well I messed around with the options in MS Picture It -- found a way to adjust the printer settings and found an option in my printer settings that I never knew existed: Photo Optimizer! That did the trick.

The only thing that is puzzling now is this: the picture printed out at actual size (3 x 5) looks "dottier" or grainier than the same px enlarged to an 8 by 10 and printed out!