DPI to pixels

DPI to pixels. Start from DPI and a paper preset.

Calculators use 25.4 millimetres to the inch. They do not know your driver’s secret scaling. If the number matters on paper, print the ruler page and measure it.

A browser can draw a page and hand it to the print dialog. It cannot talk to the printhead, read a toner chip, or start a cleaning cycle. Those commands belong to the printer and its driver. If a button on this site cleaned your nozzles, it would be pretending.

When a length matters, print at 100 percent or Actual size. Turn off Fit to page, Shrink to fit, and Scale to fit. Then put a ruler on the 100 mm bar. If that bar is not 100 mm, every other judgment about size is early. The preview on the screen is scaled to fit the window. Only the paper counts.

The screen is red, green, and blue light. The printer is ink or toner on a sheet. They will not match, and this site does not build an ICC profile. Use the patches to see whether a color is missing or wildly shifted, not to approve a brand color.

A gap in a single color row points at that color: the nozzles, the cartridge, or a setting that turned the color off. A gap that cuts every color in the same place can be a scratch, a dirty roller, or damage in the scan you photographed. A whole page that is pale is a different problem again: draft mode, a low supply, or the wrong paper type. One sheet does not name the part.

On a laser printer, a mark that repeats down the page often matches the circumference of a drum, a roller, or a fuser. This page will not tell you which. Write down the distance between repeats and stop there. On an inkjet, a thin white line through one color is more often a nozzle. Do not swap those stories.

If nothing prints, the pattern is irrelevant. Check the queue, the selected printer, and whether the device is paused or offline. Then print the operating system’s own test page. A page from Windows, macOS, or the printer panel that also fails is not a problem with this website.

Borderless printing is a printer feature, not a browser feature. Edge bars that stop short of the knife are the unprintable margin or a scale setting. Forcing borderless in the driver can also scale the page. Measure the bar after you change that setting.

Is 300 DPI always required? No. A poster on a wall is often fine nearer 150, sometimes less. A photo in the hand wants more.

Why did my 100 mm bar come out at 96 mm? The driver scaled the page. Turn off fit-to-page and print again.

Do you include the printer’s hard margin? The margin calculator uses the numbers you type. The margin test page shows what the device actually kept.