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Thread ID: 48869	2004-09-03 08:41:00	Photoshop: resizing scanned text, printed blocky	nomad (3693)	Press F1

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268845	2004-09-03 08:41:00	Hiya I scanned some pages 2 pages slightly larger than A4 and wanted to put them together and be printed out. I scanned each page at 300dpi, each file was about 20MB. I used PS to stitched them together and resize them down by not resampling, I previewed page/print preview options and it fitted to an A4 page, I did not use fit to page. I used 600dpi off my b/w HP laserjet. When it was printed it, the text was noticeably blocky, the pictures were fine thou. What can I do?	nomad (3693)
268846	2004-09-03 10:05:00	What did u save the pics as?? 20mb sounds a bit big... You could try an OCR program like Omnipage Pro if u have it. I think they scan pics and text together. Might be a bit clearer when it prints too.	Spacemannz (808)
268847	2004-09-03 11:36:00	hi, i don't have OCR software. I saved the pictures as TIF 24 bit color, 300x300 dpi. I have tried another two things and its been the same. 1. I read one of my books and enabled resampling. The author mentions digicam does not need it but scanning does. I printed, made no difference. This was resized to 11x7" held at 300dpi, the print was the same .... 2. I did same as the above and changed my printer to 300dpi, same thing. Before, the two pages when stitched together and cropped a bit was like 16x10 inch at 300dpi. When resampling was off, resized became 11x7" 439dpi. When I tried resampling on it was 11x7" by 300dpi. I did print something a few days ago, the same 2 pages, I printed them without altering the image size, they were v clear. They were 150 dpi but it was a bit small than I need so I upsized it, I got the same result as the above. Now, I thought why don't I scan them 300dpi instead and downsize a bit to fit the A4 page (both pages shrinked from 2 pages), I am just getting the above issues. I never printed anything from PS before, all I have done is edited the pix and took photo to lab to be printed out. But considering this time is just a page off a book, naturally I just want to do a quick job off the home printer.	nomad (3693)
268848	2004-09-04 01:36:00	I just printed the two pages double sided instead. I did some testing and its strange. If I sized it as I have before and printed a small cropped section out it was v readable. Then I tried to do the same thing but did not crop and allow the thing to be fitted onto one A4 snuggly it came out all blocky again. Puzzles me. I tried resampling on and off - made no difference. I tried other resampling techniques, bicubic, billinear, nears neighbour - made no difference .... All i am trying to do is reduce 2 pages into 1 and be printed... Maybe this halving factor is too harsh? But hey, the small cropped section printed fine when it was reduced to that size ... dunno..	nomad (3693)
268849	2004-09-04 01:44:00	Its bizarre ... my digicam works fine when reduced dramatically. I printed the photo full dimensions (uncropped). The natural size for the digicam is A4 by 300dpi, I resampled to 300dpi to 6x4" approx and printed. No issues at all ..	nomad (3693)
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