jpeg or Tiff - any advice!

[uKrris]

Some advice please! For printing purposes is it better to save image files as jpeg or Tiff?. Which of the two gives the better printing result ?. I do realize that a Tiff file is much bigger.

 

[elpecoso]

First, check which kind of print system use your photo shop

the main problem with JPG it isn't the resolution, it's the quality.
Too much compression put some "artifacts" in the image...

TIFF for big prints or high-quality prints
JPG for normal (13x18, 10x15) prints

chau!

 

[uKrris]

Thanks Elpecoso for this info - it helps plenty. I tried Wikipedia but found it v.technical without any real indication of practical application.

 

[Grus74]

Set to maximum quality and in not to big sizes you can easily use jpegs for print (as said above and as I do daily at the magazine I work for)). And if you for example are going to upload the pictures to some company printing them for you jpegs can be much smoother way. Or printing them at home and the printer have problems with the big tiff-files. But if we're talking poster-haning-on-the-wall size I'd burn tiffs on a cd and let the printer have a go at them to get the best result.

 

[uKrris]

Thanks Grus for this clarification - makes the decision easier for me now .