[Jimmy Clay]

Thank you everybody for helping me to understand DPI and PPI. I
believe that I understand it.

I have a general question about printing screen shots that have been
capture using a print capture utility. The one I've been
experimenting with is PrintKey 2000. Basically my question is if
there's anything that can be done to improve the quality of the screen
shot when printed in a Word document.

From my new understanding of DPI, and from experimenting, I can see no
advantage of changing the DPI of the screen shot to 300 DPI, because
then I have to increase its size and the image comes out looking the
same as it did before changing the DPI. So is there anything else I
should think about doing. Or is it basically all that I can do is get
the screen shot I want and paste it as is into Word.

Thanks

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Jimmy

Jimmy Clay wrote:
I have a general question about printing screen shots that have been
capture using a print capture utility. The one I've been
experimenting with is PrintKey 2000. Basically my question is if
there's anything that can be done to improve the quality of the screen
shot when printed in a Word document.

From my new understanding of DPI, and from experimenting, I can see no
advantage of changing the DPI of the screen shot to 300 DPI, because
then I have to increase its size and the image comes out looking the
same as it did before changing the DPI. So is there anything else I
should think about doing. Or is it basically all that I can do is get
the screen shot I want and paste it as is into Word.

the information on screen is limited by the screen resolution (typically
something between 72 and 90+ ppi). No simple change in resolution can
"invent" more pixel data.

Sophisticated picture software can interpolate pixels, sure. I don't
think Office can, but I might be mistaken. But to my understanding, this
only makes sense with, say, a JPEG from a camera, IOW: a real-word
picture. On screen, though, there has not been more information, and
hence it does not make sense to invent a gray colored pixel in between a
white and a black one.

Ultimately, the only thing I could think of to improve the picture
"quality" is -- reduce its size in Word.

HTH
Robert
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[Jimmy Clay]

On Sep 16, 12:29 pm, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)"
wrote:
Hi Jimmy

Jimmy Clay wrote:
I have a general question about printing screen shots that have been
capture using a print capture utility. The one I've been
experimenting with is PrintKey 2000. Basically my question is if
there's anything that can be done to improve the quality of the screen
shot when printed in a Word document.

From my new understanding of DPI, and from experimenting, I can see no
advantage of changing the DPI of the screen shot to 300 DPI, because
then I have to increase its size and the image comes out looking the
same as it did before changing the DPI. So is there anything else I
should think about doing. Or is it basically all that I can do is get
the screen shot I want and paste it as is into Word.

the information on screen is limited by the screen resolution (typically
something between 72 and 90+ ppi). No simple change in resolution can
"invent" more pixel data.

Sophisticated picture software can interpolate pixels, sure. I don't
think Office can, but I might be mistaken. But to my understanding, this
only makes sense with, say, a JPEG from a camera, IOW: a real-word
picture. On screen, though, there has not been more information, and
hence it does not make sense to invent a gray colored pixel in between a
white and a black one.

Ultimately, the only thing I could think of to improve the picture
"quality" is -- reduce its size in Word.

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word

Okay, thanks. From what I've been reading, I believe what you're
saying is correct. My ink jet printer can actually print at a higher
DPI than what I need, so I set it at its highest quality, then printed
different screen shots after have changed them in different ways and
they all came out looking the same.

So I'm going to stop worrying about this particular problem. Thanks
for yours and everyone else's help.