PPI, DPI, and why that image doesn’t look right when you print it

30 January 2017 | Computers, Gizmos, How Does it Work? | 2 comments

You know the drill: You’ve got an image on your puter. You print it.

It’s either really small, or it’s big enough, but really blocky and nasty looking.

So what gives?

It’s all about PPI and DPI.

That’s Pixels Per Inch and Dots Per Inch. Don’t worry, it’ll all be clear in a few more paragraphs…

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