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Avoid Compression When Printing Screen Shots

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For screen display you want low resolution and small file sizes for faster downloads. For print you'll want to keep all the resolution and pixels you can get.
  • Avoid "lossy" compression formats such as JPG for your screen captures.

  • If exporting a file containing screen captures to PDF, turn off the automatic graphics compression in your Distiller options.

  • Don't let your software change the resolution of your images (turn off any such options) before sending your document to the printer.

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