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Step 10—Select an output resolution
Click the triangle next to Crop in the Tool Chest to open the
Crop palette. Enter a value for Resolution that matches the
effective resolution of the printer or monitor on which the im-
age will be displayed after scanning. Resolution can also be set
by selecting an output device from the output resolution pop-
up menu.
Output resolution
Output resolution menu
Picking an output resolution
When scanning images for output on a household inkjet printer,
keep in mind that unit "pixels per inch" (used on monitors and in
image editing software) is not equivalent to the "dots per inch"
used on inkjet printers. An output resolution of around 240 ppi
is usually adequate for printers rated for 360, 720 or 1,440 dpi.
Computer monitors are usually considered to have resolutions
of 96 ppi (Windows) or 72 ppi (Macintosh).
Tutorial: Making a Scan
Step 11—Adjust the output size
Before scanning, adjust the output size to determine the size of
the image that will be produced, either in terms of the physical
dimensions of the image when printed or displayed at the se-
lected resolution, or in terms of the amount of space it will
occupy when saved to disk. The Crop palette contains three
options for determining output size: Keep this crop, Keep
this output size, and Keep this file size.
Output size
File size
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Output
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