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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Paul on February 07, 2009, 12:17:18 AM

Title: Help printing certain covers
Post by: Paul on February 07, 2009, 12:17:18 AM

Hey guys!  I don't need to tell you how much I appreciate this site because I do that in every other thread!

Anyway, I *FINALLY* ordered 100 UGC's and I went through and printed out all of my N64 covers that I needed.

Except, on 2 covers, Pokemon Stadium and Wave Race 64, I get this picture when I set it up the way I do all of my other covers:

(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7275/errorin3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/errorin3.jpg/1/w958.png) (http://g.imageshack.us/img3/errorin3.jpg/1/)

it just shows the preview as being absolutely huge and WAY out of proportion for what it should be.

Can someone help me with how to print these covers like I printed all of my others?

EDIT:

I forgot to mention that I print all covers in MS Paint.

Title: Re: Help printing certain covers
Post by: tiktektak on February 07, 2009, 05:49:24 AM

Oh my god you use MS-Paint?

I don't know exactly but doesn't MS-Paint scale down every image you open in it to 72dpi which means it makes a fvery low res picture out of a high quality one.... Or does it do this only when you save it?

Anyway I would recommend to use everything BUT MS-Paint(gimp,paint.net,photoshop,etc....)

Title: Re: Help printing certain covers
Post by: Paul on February 07, 2009, 09:14:51 PM

Quote from: tiktektak on February 07, 2009, 05:49:24 AM

Oh my god you use MS-Paint?

I don't know exactly but doesn't MS-Paint scale down every image you open in it to 72dpi which means it makes a fvery low res picture out of a high quality one.... Or does it do this only when you save it?

Anyway I would recommend to use everything BUT MS-Paint(gimp,paint.net,photoshop,etc....)

thanks for the advice!

I actually downloaded GIMP just now and the cover printed out fine.

Thanks again!