Reccomended Settings For Scanning From Photos

wideangle

I have a epson perfection 2480 photo scanner and a epson stylus c42 plus printer.
I have scanned as jepegs all along but the image quality is'nt good enough to print,so I post them on my websites.Is bit map the correct file format to scan to get decent quality prints,I need to find out before I go wasting time,ink and paper.Any advice would be appreciated.

Carrigman

Are you scanning the photos at print quality settings on your scanner? When you see the Epson Twain window on your screen check the resolution setting. For prints it should be between 250 and 300 dpi. There is no reason why you should not get good prints from jpegs provided you have the originals scanned at the correct resolution. Images destined for the net on the other hand require a resolution of around 75 dpi but they will not produce good prints. I wonder is that where your problem lies?

DotOrg

scan them so the pixel size (forget about dpi, it's meaningless for digital files) is at least 1800 pixels at the wide end. for better quality, scan them bigger than that

wideangle

I think I just scan them on automatic,never checked the resoultion and d.p.i and all that sruff,but can give it a shot soon.
Thanks for the info guys.:D

DotOrg

scan them at the higest quality settings. if you have lots of hard disk space save them as tif files, if not, save them as jpg files with the higest jpg quality setting