having trouble printing a business card

[v1nsai]

I made a business card for a friend recently using gimp, and when I printed it out the result was very pixelated. It looked terrible. I remade it using inkscape, thinking it was a vector/raster mixup on behalf of the user, but the printouts still look pixelated.

I'm using a Dell 968w printer, I know its capable of printing a business card correctly it's less than a year old. I'm exporting my images to .png because the machine connected to the printer is running windows and doesn't understand .svg or .xcf files.

I would really appreciate some help I'm really annoyed that I'm having so much trouble simply printing something. I'm fairly new to graphics editing so I'm hoping that I"m making a small mistake somewhere, thanks for any input.

[Stochastic]

When you're converting the file to .png you're making the resolution too small. Export bigger to avoid any pixelization.

On your windows machine you may either need to do some fiddling to get your current graphics app to print a higher resolution image onto the exact size of a business card; or you could find a vector graphics program for windows and print from that to avoid dealing in pixels. Search this page for windows vector editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vector_graphics_editors

If all else fails, what's your printer's DPI max supposed to be rated at?

[cariboo907]

You could also just create a logo, then use OpenOffice to create the business card and paste the logo into it.

[tgalati4]

I've used the openoffice business card template and it printed fine. Look around, there are a few floating around.