Images and printing....

[David Bovill]

I'm doing some work on printing from MC for the first time and got some
questions:

    it seems that MC prints images at a higher resolution that screen if the
image has such a resolution - which is great. The question is what
resolution is used when... I'm working through this so getting some answers
but still in the grey here.

If an image is imported and resized, then the higher resolution is still
printed but exporting the image results in a file that corresponds to the
dimensions of  the image - is that right?

So MC stores all the info somewhere and uses this to display the image at
different sizes - not sure if there are any circumstances where it saves a
lower resolution and loses the higher resolution data?

Also is there any way to get the size / resolution information stored with
images so that they can be resized when placing them in MC - MC imports them
all at a size corresponding to 72dpi which can make pretty large images if
they were stored at 300 dpi or above.

I've also come across some problems with printing JPEG's from a Sony Digital
camera... it seems that PictureGear which comes with the Viao range of PC's
saves the images in a way in which MC can display them but not print them. I
only used PictureGear to rename the files but the original prints fine the
renamed files result in blank cards (only the border prints), and using
something like Graphic Converter on the file which would not print fixes the
problem.

Anyone know what is going on and how to get MC to work around this - perhaps
you can get MC to import and then re-export an image to ensure that it can
be printed properly?