Printing problems

[pmsing]

I have a Canon Digital Rebel and a new Elson printer ( the on that has a $100 rebate) sorry the name escapes me. I printed a indoor picture and the background when looking closely I can see dots that make up the picture. It was worse with an outdoor shot I took. What am I doing wrong? I have not had this problem before with any other printer, any suggestions? I appreciate your time.

Patte

[BDM]

I'm not familiar with that printer but if you really are seeing dots, it looks like the dopts per inch setting is way too low. Either the printer is incapable of a decent dots per inch performance or something is not set correctly. Is there a driver screen you can acess to check if you can set the print resolution? Perhaps the users manual (if there is one) might give a clue.

You should definitely not see dots on the output at any reasonable print size if things were working correctly. I'm assuming you are not seeing dots on the computer monitor but only on the print? And I'm also assuming this is a direct camera to printer setup rather that a print after some manipulation in an imaging processing program such as Photoshop.

Bruce

[Motorsports Photo]

resize your image using 300 dpi and a size appropriate to the size paper you're using. The LAST step is to do unsharp masking. You may have to experimet to find the numbers you like, but in Photoshop 90, 2, 4 work best for me.

-Pete