Jpeg, Tiff, or what?

[dog352]

I'm using InDesign to create a storyboard. I have to scan different flyers from our company and put small picture sizes of these flyers in the storyboard. The flyers contain half picts, half text. I assumed it was ok to scan it 300 dpi and save it as the highest quality jpeg, but that's not working. For people who have experience with this:

1) What is the best format to scan flyer in
2) What is the best format to save flyer in for import into InDesign.

Thanks all for your patience and help.

 

[jmgalvin]

TIFF hardly ever causes any problems with any layout app. If you're going to commercial print, make sure you use CMYK color, not RGB in the tiffs.

If the scans contain text, you'll be better of scanning at 600 dpi or above. You can always reduce as useful. You can go down in resolution. but it's very hard to go up unless you're doing a big physical size reduction of the picture.

 

[yoderman94]

I agree, jmgalvin is totally right. I have been doing print design for about 5 years now, and tif's are standard, some people like eps, but I have seen issues with them time and time again, so I tend to stay away from them unless I have too.