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1. Hello! I found your fabulous miniature book print-outs and set to printing them out in 600dpi on an HP 8100. Then I discovered I had acquired 1200dpi when I downloaded the printer onto this new laptop. The 600 was pants, but the 1200 much better and I will be practising with those copies. However, they are still not crystal clear – to be honest, still quite blurry and unreadable. To do justice to your creations, may I ask what dpi you used to print them and am I looking at spending a fortune on a new printer? The HP is perfectly fine for most documents, but I’ve been unhappy with it for some time for craft printing. Is there a Print Shop option, where I can buy the ready printed sheets? I’m in Scotland. Tx. Janet.

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   1. I am afraid I have not been paying attention to the print part at all, as most of them are picture heavy, and with my vision I could not possibly read small print in any case. I just use regular multi use cheap printer paper. I also had a run of the mill HP printer when I made them. I don’t sell them, but if you are a dollhouse person and want to make them up and sell them you are welcome to do so.

      In the case of the makeup books those were made from full size scans of the books which you can find elsewhere on the site by looking up theatrical makeup history. The majority of the illustrations of the rest come from web-trawled copyright expired images which are often pretty low DPI, but since I’m making them smaller rather than larger when I convert them it is not as much of an issue than it might be trying to print them full size.

      However, since you are enough of an enthusiast that you care about print quality, and readable text, I’m guessing that you might like to make mini books of your own design. Happily, I have a page with links to my Google Doc files that are PSD (PhotoShop Document) files I have created to make cranking out these books easy. I have kept them at a DPI that works well with my laptop processing speed, but you can up the DPI of the whole image before you start to get better print results. You just need some form of Photoshop (I’m using Photoshop Express which is quite affordable), you can up the DPI on the whole PSD before you start adding images and you just scan or find pages and quickly insert the individual images into the slots of these layered templates. https://taramaginnis.com/instructions-for-free-miniature-books-for-dollhouse-use-plus-psd-templates-for-making-your-own/ The top part of the page is about printing out and folding the books, but at bottom are these useful PSDs. While making these templates took trial and error for weeks to create them, once you have them and have made 1-2 to learn how they work, you can get up to speed to create a book from any group of image files you have in less than an hour of fiddling around with your individual layout aesthetics This way you can make any book you like, in any dpi you like with any cover art you like!

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