Exclamation mark when printing

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Exclamation mark when printing

I went to print 2 images on a page with N-Up last night. One was the full photo and the other was a cropped detail.

They both had the same 2x3 aspect ratio from my Digital Rebel. (I constrained the crop to "4x6")

When I printed, there was a little yellow triangle with and exclamation point on the cropped preview.

How do I find out what the little triangle was telling me? I tried clicking, double clicking and right-clicking, but could not get any additional information. I am pretty sure it was telling me that I did not have sufficient resolution, but I want to know how to have it tell me that, so I don't have to guess.

iMac FP 800 MHz, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Nov 27, 2007 8:47 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 20, 2007 2:20 PM in response to Keith Barkley

This suddenly started happening to me today. I tried preview and just get a picture of the printer progress bar in the PDF. Have printed hundreds of documents prior to today and over a long period with no trouble.

I don't think it is printer driver dependent because I am only using Preview at this point.

My theory is that this is happening because I need a few pictures as Christmas gifts.

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Answer 2

Dec 20, 2007 2:28 PM in response to Kirk Wedge

I take it back. This is only affecting one particular picture. Others are printing fine. Too bad that's the one I really wanted.

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Answer 3

emad&c

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Mar 15, 2008 7:21 AM in response to Keith Barkley

1.I have found it to mean its too low a resolution to be printed.
2. have you enlarged a part of a photo that you want to print which could also give it as too low a resolution.

eg 300dpi picture prints ok on a 4in x 6in.
0.5in enlarged to 4in x 6in means the picture is enlarged say 500% and the resolution is gone

russell

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Answer 4

emad&c

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Mar 15, 2008 7:26 AM in response to Keith Barkley

hi I see its a cropped detail, its being enlarged too much and the resolution is going.
if that portion contains 120 dpi and you make it 5 times the size then the resolution is spread up by five times.

4x6 300dpi, or 2540resolution.
cropped part 0.5 inch taken enlarged to 4x6 spreads out the resolution
see above post.
keep changing the crop area until the yellow exclaimation goes away, enlarge copped area

russell

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