Problems printing on 11x17 paper

[rlevan]

I have a small photo scanned at 800 dpi and am trying to print it on 11x17 paper on a Canon S9000 printer. Only about 40% of the image prints. What's weird is that the spool file is exactly 1/2 the size of the tiff. Here are the particulars -

- 2.4Ghz cpu
- 1.5Gb RAM

- Photoshop 6.0
- preferences set to allocate 80% of total memory to Photoshop (1.2GB)
- printing to spool file

I've played around with every possible combination of print setting I can think of - RAW format, EML format, print directly to printer, print as soon as spool starts, print when spooling is done, etc. Photoshop gags and barfs if I try to set the memory allocation higher - reporting an unrecoverable error writing to the scratch disk.

I'm fresh out of ideas. HELP!!!!!

 

[Manic]

well there are a few things u can try.

first of all I would knock the image down to 300 dpi. I use this as a rule of thumb for hi quality printing (u can use higher rez for things like glossy prints but 600 dpi would be my max)

I would then check the dimentions of the actual image. it is likly that it is a lot larger than what you are printing onto.

check that photoshop knows what your final output size is and the orientation. (the page setup tab in the print dialog).

try printing it then.

if it is still too large try printing fit to page this is on the print dialog.

By doing this you will see how much photoshop has to scale the image to fit to your dimentions.

if you are still at a loss please add another post.

Hope this helps



Manic
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[WizyWyg]

800 dpi? For printing you need no more than 600 dpi to work with. Magazines in all their glossy finish only work with 300 dpi.

 

[jimoblak]

What's the filesize of the TIFF? What is the pixel size and printable dimensions of the file? When you say you scanned at 800dpi, was that at the small photo's physical size or the size of the tabloid sheet? What is the final dpi when the image is scaled to fit the tabloid sheet?

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