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= Picture It!: General information about using scanned images =

Article ID: 228759

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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SUMMARY
Scanned images can greatly increase the amount of time and disk space it takes to save a document. Scanned images can also affect the amount of time it takes to print a document.

The amount of detail recorded by the scanner is measured in dots per inch (dpi). The higher the resolution or dpi, the more detailed the image and the larger the file size of the image. When you are going to add a scanned image to a document, you may want to keep the following points in mind:
 * Use the optimum scanning resolution to keep images from getting unnecessarily large. Do this by matching the scanning resolution to the capacity of the output device.
 * If the resolution of an image is greater than the resolution a printer can print, the printer ignores the resolution that exceeds its capacity to print.
 * The best scanning resolution is equal to two times the number of dots per inch (dpi) that the printer is capable of printing.

The following table may help you select the optimum scanning resolution.

You may also want to consider the following "rules of thumb."

Scan at the Appropriate Resolution
If you are scanning in color or grayscale, scan at no more than one half the resolution of your printer. For example, if your laser printer prints at 600 dpi, scan at no more than 300 dpi. If you are scanning in black and white, scan at no more than your printer resolution, but make sure that your scanner setting is "black and white" or "line art."

Scan at the Appropriate Color Depth
If your original artwork is in color, but you are printing the image on a black-and-white printer, scan the image in grayscale. If your original artwork is a black-and-white line diagram, scan it in black and white.

Scan at the Appropriate Size
Use your scanning program to scale the original artwork. For example, if you are scanning a 5-by-5-inch logo to place on a business card, use the scaling controls in your scanner software to reduce it to about 20-percent of its original size (1-by-1-inch). Then adjust the size of the image in one of the programs listed at the beginning of this article to adjust the logo to exactly the right size.



MORE INFORMATION
When you import a scanned image into a document, you are importing a rectangular grid containing numerous dots of different colors. If you scan an entire letter-sized sheet of paper at 300 dots per inch, that rectangular grid contains about 8,415,000 individual dots.

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