Dpi Question

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Hello guys,

Have you tried 3DS Max Print Size Wizard - it has a lot of presets which could help a lot.
Rendering > Print Size Assistant.

[Neilg]

I'm guessing the point here is that of all people, the guys at the print shop should be on top of the pixels/DPI thing, and lots of us here are rather horrified by the lack of knowledge.
While secretly rescaling the images up to what ever dpi was requested might be a good solution, it still doesn't solve the problem of all these people being completely clueless.

The print guys aren't clueless though - they will be printing at 300 dpi. They want you to give them a 300 dpi file. What's so difficult about that? It's not their job to figure out the distance it'll be viewed from and render to a suitable resolution - it's their job to print your 300dpi file that you send them.
If they get a 300dpi file from you to print and it looks shit, it's not their fault. If you convince them to print a lower res image and it looks shit, it's their fault. they are covering their ass.

It's not 'secretly' resizing - every raster image made for print gets resized.