Originally Posted by
Joanna Carter
You only need to scan at a resolutio that will give you the finished size at 240-300dpi; 240 being perfectly adequate for excellent quality prints. Taking this into account, if you take a size of 12x15, that would mean scanning at 720dpi (3x240) or 900dpi (3x300). I scan at 1200dpi to give me a finished print size of 20x25 and then I temporarily resize the image to whatever size I want to print at. You certainly don't want to use 6400; that would give you a finished image at 240dpi of something around 9ft x 11ft !!!
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