Pro Shop vs. Home Printing

[Mitch_Thompson]

I have an i950, and it always prints beautifully at full page size with images from my Minolta DiMAGE A1. However, I recently had some professional photos taken, and the studio provided me a CD of JPEGs. On a professional's print system (at two different shops), 8x10's are perfect to the naked eye. At home, I can't seem to print an 8x10 without tremendous pixelation. I have resampled the JPEGs at 300dpi before resizing, tried many auto-optimizations, etc, to no avail. I thought that perhaps the scanned photos were not of sufficient quality, yet they printed fine on both photo lab's systems.

I am using PhotoShop CS. Although I'm no expert, I'm not a complete novice.

Any advice? The original files are 1000 pixels square (Haselblad scans). Are there proprietary JPEG extractions, or am I missing something obvious?

Help!

[Scottes]

1000 x 1000 would print decently to 4" x 4" max - 240 dpi is usually considered the lowest res for decent prints. That's a pretty low-res scan, which seems to be common for labs that provide CDs of JPGs. There's not much you can do. Software exists to upsample with good results, but I don't think it will handle a 2.5x increase in size - I *think* the results would still be pretty pixelated.

If you mean (but it doesn't sound like it) that the JPGs were scanned at 1000dpi you'd have 2250x2250 JPGs, which would print 8" x 8" at excellent quality.

[Roger_Cavanagh]

Scottes is right. There's something screwy: 1000x1000 px JPGs doesn't make sense.

Regards,