SHOOT/EDIT/PRINT

[KmH]

Just above you said the Mpix printers output at 250 ppi. No, they're printers and they print dots not pixels.

Mpix makes chromogenic prints that are made on light sensitive paper. The paper has a 3 layer emulsion each layer of the emulsion containing one of 3 colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow. No dots.

The digital image is projected onto the light sensitive paper using red, green, and blue LED's and then developed chemically (RA-4 chemistry).

Mpix press products are made using an offset print, half-tone printing technique.

 

[clanthar]

Just above you said the Mpix printers output at 250 ppi. No, they're printers and they print dots not pixels.

Mpix makes chromogenic prints that are made on light sensitive paper. The paper has a 3 layer emulsion each layer of the emulsion containing one of 3 colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow. No dots.

The digital image is projected onto the light sensitive paper using red, green, and blue LED's and then developed chemically (RA-4 chemistry).

Mpix press products are made using an offset print, half-tone printing technique.

I'm not an Mpix user, but "projection" sounds like they're making Lightjet enlargements, so what? -- half-tone printing uses dots; 150 lpi = 300 ppi = 2400 dpi so what? Kimmy needs a lesson now in offset printing?

I don't think Kimmy cares a bleep's bleep what technology is available out there to get a photograph on paper. She just needs to understand the size/resolution relationship and how to manipulate that using Elements to get decent print quality.

You didn't get it. Dots got it. The point was and IS we should help Kimmy with useful information that makes sense to her and stop nit-picking terminology. "Chromogenic" and "RA-4" aren't helping Kimmy figure this out.

Joe

 

[KmH]

Kimmy isn't the only person reading the thread, Joe.

Chromogenic prints are not off-set, half-tone prints.