Why do my prints look blurry even though the image looks sharp on screen?

The gap comes from how differently screens and printers use image data. A monitor shows roughly 72 to 96 pixels per inch, so a modestly sized image can look crisp on screen while lacking the pixel count a printer needs at 300 DPI.

• Check the pixel dimensions, not how it looks on screen. Divide each dimension by 300 to find the largest clean print size.
• Screens forgive low resolution. Print does not, because it packs far more dots into every inch.
• Enlarging a small image stretches the same pixels over more space, which is what reads as soft or fuzzy.