Format to Save in for Printing

[new girl on the bloc]

I print a lot of my own photos on my canon i960. when i save them as tif files i am not able to print them with the software that comes with the program. when i save them as jpeg they get compressed. anyone know the best way to save these files for printing?

[maderito]

I print a lot of my own photos on my canon i960. when i save them as tif files i am not able to print them with the software that comes with the program. when i save them as jpeg they get compressed. anyone know the best way to save these files for printing?

It's not a problem with the i960; it's your image viewing/editing application (I think) which is passing the image to the printer, an 8 bit device. You probably have a 16 bit Tiff image that Canon's FilveViewerUtility (or whatever you're using) won't handle properly.

JPEGS are fine for routine printing as long as you don't use too much compression. See http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=23374&highlight= for some info related to your question.

BTW - which "software" are your referring to.

[new girl on the bloc]

woody lee--

thanks for your reply and the link; it was helpful. i am referring to the easy-print software mainly. i've tried printing from ps a few times but the results were disappointing. when i save as jpeg i use the highest possible settings.

[John_T]

I believe Easy-PhotoPrint only prints jpegs. Of course you want to preserve your original images in whatever format they were taken, be it jpeg or RAW and work with copies, preferrably tiffs or psds. Jpegs just degrade too quickly after a few saves, but that is the format most people use to get more pix on their CF card. Easy-PhotoPrint is mainly for people who shoot and print. There is a new version of Easy-PhotoPrint and a new one called Easy-PhotoPrint Plus which gives limited image correction for printing that you can download from the Canon site.

FVU is mainly for RAW basic corrections, such as white balance, and then conversion to tiff for further work in PS or such.

To work with 16bit tiffs you will need more powerful software like PS CS, however for most purposes there is no need for 16bit because the printer won't deal with more than 8bit anyway and 8 bit is more than adequate. Of course you will get the most out of your images and the best prints over PS, but you have to go therough the learning curve. :roll:

[Vegas Poboy]

I would try printing straight from Photoshop or another editing program, you may even get better results.

[iwatkins]

PhotoRecord will print 16-bit TIFFs but they must be saved from PS without any compression.

Cheers

Ian

[John_T]

Interesting. Thanks Ian. I tried it and got some banding which I have never had before. I understand the printer driver only wants 8bit, or knocks it back to 8bit, so I guess it didn't like it and spit the banding at me. Whatever, apparently you can't print without one of those frames, so I guess it's not for me.

[iwatkins]

John,

You can print using Photo Record without frames. I do it all the time. You just need to know where to look to turn all that crap off :shock:

Cheers

Ian