Printing a logo off computer

filthy beast wrote:
There is a possibility that the designer intentionally posted it as a low resolution to discourage people from using his/her artwork without permission. Just a thought.
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My thoughts exactly. I do this with my photography. Unless it's marked as available for public use, most likely it has to be licensed.

Lots of cheap logo design companies on the web. Get something original.

Often they show you in bit map. If you want it in vector, it's pay me now time.

1492 wrote:
Vector graphics are resolution independent. If you downloaded the logo from the Net, was it a bitmap?

Then it could very well be set for monitor resolution at either 72dpi or 96dpi? These will virtually always produce jagged images when printed.

You need to be using a bitmap image of at least 300dpi. Or try doing a search for a vector logo alternative with an .ai extension. When you import into your graphic program(?), it will need to be converted to a bitmap @300dpi. Make sure your biz card template is also set at 300dpi.

A vector graphics program such as Adobe Illustrator or equivalent is much better for laying out graphics for printing such as a biz card. You can easily resize the type/graphics without any loss in quality. That's not necessarily the case with a bitmap based program such as Photoshop, where you need to pay attention to you graphic resolution more carefully, in order to get the best printing results.

Yup, I looked and it sure enough it is 96 dpi. :(

Thanks everyone for all the info. Especially the one about resetting my bc template too. I would not have known about that.

Guess it's back to the drawing board.

Copy the original image and then "paste" it in Windows "Paint". Resize and re-save to a JPEG image. Then use the new JPEG for whatever you need. Easy solution and doesn't cost anything. If it does not work, you've lost nothing but a little time.

If the "copy-paste" into Paint does not work, then do a screen shot and paste into a Word Document. Then crop the image in Word, and paste it into Paint and resave as a JPEG. This works too for images that don't like to be copied.

There is a possibility that the designer intentionally posted it as a low resolution to discourage people from using his/her artwork without permission. Just a thought.
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As an example, here is a logo available in both bitmap(.jpg) and vector(.ai) formats:

And what happens when you resize the above logo 3x larger:

Bitmap version.

Vector version.

If you can only obtain a bitmap graphic(.png,.jpg,.gif,etc), then try to get one at least 300dpi and avoid enlarging it. Reducing the size of the logo is fine.

Vector graphics are resolution independent. If you downloaded the logo from the Net, was it a bitmap? Then it could very well be set for monitor resolution at either 72dpi or 96dpi? These will virtually always produce jagged images when printed.

You need to be using a bitmap image of at least 300dpi. Or try doing a search for a vector logo alternative with an .ai extension. When you import into your graphic program(?), it will need to be converted to a bitmap @300dpi. Make sure your biz card template is also set at 300dpi.

A vector graphics program such as Adobe Illustrator or equivalent is much better for laying out graphics for printing such as a biz card. You can easily resize the type/graphics without any loss in quality. That's not necessarily the case with a bitmap based program such as Photoshop, where you need to pay attention to you graphic resolution more carefully, in order to get the best printing results.

what is the file extension of the logo?
if its a "VECTOR' image file, it might do what you describe, when imported and used as a bitmap raster image
also
how big was the clip art you saved
its easy to scale down
not so easy to scale up a tiny image

you might need to use a photo image program to to resize the image, before use it