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Improve the quality of printed iPhoto books
Authored by: Gabs on Jul 20, '05 05:30:33PM

Now I know that the books are sent at 150ppi I understand why the large book I had done a couple of months ago came back with my pictures looking softened. Not terrible but noticably so.

The book was very good quailty however - a really vast improvement over the past incarmnation of iPhoto book printing and crickey is the price right. (Yes.)

As for Apple's motives - digital images from digital cameras are generally sharper than scanned equivalents (plus most digital cameras also add sharpeness as they produce their JPEGs). Let's face it a slightly softened effect may improve many faces and do a lot to remove any nasty JPEG artefacts. Then there's also the amount of extra processing a large page at 300 (or even 200)ppi will require. It's not particularly fast on my GHz+ PowerBook at the standard setting.

Bottom line for me; if I really need sharper results and don't mind the extra processing: I expect this hack to add extra quality to an already very good service/product.

Tip of the hat to you seqiro!

BTW MAC-guyver: mine took three or four weeks to arrive at Palma de Mallorca (Spain); via Dortmund, Germany--with a Made in California note inside (if I remember rightly).



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Improve the quality of printed iPhoto books
Authored by: sinebubble on Jul 20, '05 10:09:05PM

I believe the large books send at 330 dpi by default. The 150 dpi setting is for the small books.



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Improve the quality of printed iPhoto books
Authored by: cewatts on Jul 20, '05 11:13:55PM

You are incorrect. The default for small books is 300 dpi. Medium and large books default to 150.

I'm sad that Rob decided to post this version of the hint - I sent in a more explanatory version of the hint last week, including a much simpler method of checking and adjusting the dpi settings. (The "defaults" command is so much easier than these stupid "convert binary plist to text, then back" suggestions.)

Oh well.



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Improve the quality of printed iPhoto books
Authored by: robg on Jul 22, '05 08:41:40AM

"I'm sad that Rob decided to post this version of the hint - I sent in a more explanatory version of the hint last week,"

I hadn't seen your version, as I proceed through the (very sizable) queue in date order when posting. Please feel free to add your version here as a comment (email me if you'd like a copy of what you submitted).

regards;
-rob.



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