Reply To: Is it acceptable to rasterize body copy?

Jamie123, as much as we love vector, it ends up as a raster image on paper. I don’t rasterize vector unless it’s needed and to be safe, I do it at 600 ppi.

It sounds like the people you’ve talked to are trying to avoid font issues. (designers are notorious for sending over jobs without fonts.)

Ultimately with printing, ask your printer what the ppi of images should be @ 100%.

There’s more about resolution and offset/digital printing to understand, such as PPI vs DPI vs LPI (line screen).

Sorry, Graham, I disagree with you about 300 dpi – for regular, everyday printing, that is standard. Newspapers and magazines are regularly printed at 225 dpi.