Resolution of the Printout, Which Determine the Sublimation Printing Quality

Have you ever met such a problem: When you sublimated a image on the substrate, the final result looks blurry and out of focus. Do you know the reason? This is mainly because you choose the image with wrong resolution.

First we should know that the normally web graphics are 72 dots per inch (dpi) and printed graphics are 300 dpi. Because web graphics need to be small in size so that it can be downloaded and viewed quickly. On your computer screen, 72 dpi is enough resolution, however when you print the images/graphics on transfer paper or any other substrate, it will require approximately 300 dpi (more than 3 times the acceptable screen resolution). So if you want to download a images to print on something, check the resolution at first.

If you look at the specifications of the inkjet printers, you will find all of them will tell you the printing resolution, this is an important factor when choose an inkjet printer. As we said before, higher resolution usually means higher printing quality.

About resolution, we have some suggestions for you:

1.When you print onto the hard substrates, it will be hard to get away with low resolution images, because the smoothness of the surface will show the pixilation more. But if you want to print on the t-shirt, it will be easier to get away with low resolution images

2.Photographs can hide low resolution much better than graphics, text, or solid color images.

3.Don’t be worry if your customers send you the vector files. Because the resolution of most vector graphics are independent and they do not display dpi in your graphics program.