If we want more detail, we scan at a higher DPI. When we talk about scanning, we talk about the DPI we want to scan at. Some mobile phone screens have higher PPI than computer screens. Fast forward to today, we have screens that insanely high resolution and pixel density that make pixels almost indiscernible by the naked eye. Remember the time when LCD monitors were still in its infancy stage and you could see the huge pixels that form the letters you read on screen? Those old monitors have low resolution and low PPI (pixel density). The higher the PPO, the more pixels there are in a square inch on the screen, and the more details there will be. PPI Pixels Per Inch is sort of like DPI but it measures the pixel density of a computer screen. The higher the DPI, the more dots that can squeeze into a square inch, and the more details there will be. This is usually measured by DPI.ĭPI: Dots Per Inch is the number of dots that can be printed by a printer in a square inch. Print resolution: This is the number of dots that can be printed in an area. After you scan an artwork, it's going to be converted into a digital file with pixel dimensions. And if you want to share your art online, you should note the width in pixel, and scan at a resolution similar or high enough to match that width.īefore we go further, let's define some terms first.ĭisplay resolution: This is the number of distinct pixels that can be displayed on a computer screen in the horizontal and vertical axis. For example if you want to reproduce your art in a high quality print, you should scan at a resolution similar or higher than the printing resolution of the printer. The resolution to use should be determined by where you want to reproduce the work. What resolution should you use to scan your artwork? And that's where I got the idea for this article. Looking at that 300dpi scan on such a high resolution screen made me wish that I had scanned at a much higher resolution.
A few days ago, I opened up one of my old scans on the Microsoft Surface Studio 2, an all-in-one computer with a 28-inch monitor that supports a resolution of 4,500 by 3,000.
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