Some of your graphics may be images that you have scanned yourself. In order to produce high-quality images that will make your project look its best, please follow these guidelines.

Line Art

Line Art could include text, logos, or clip-art images that contain only black and white. To ensure image quality, it is important that line art be scanned at a higher resolution than what is required for photographs. Wes-Tex recommends that you scan line art at a minimum of 600 dpi, but you will get better results if you scan at 1200 dpi.

Photographs

You should of course scan photographs as grayscale images, so photographs should therefore be scanned separately from any line art you plan to scan and use. We recommend you scan photographs at a minimum of 600 dpi. Make sure that when you save the image, you save it as grayscale.

If you're going to enlarge the image you're scanning, do not scan it at its original size and then plan on blowing it up, because you will lose resolution and the image quality will be poor. You will not be happy with the results! Scan the image at 100% or more of the intended enlarged size. For example, if you have an image that is an inch wide and you want it to be three inches, scan at 300%. It's always better to scan too large than to scan too small, because we can reduce an image with no loss in quality, but you're guaranteed a loss if you blow up a lower-resolution scan.

You may send scanned images to us in a TIFF (uncompressed) or EPS form.