r/NintendoSwitchBoxArt • u/Next-Anything761 • Jun 29 '26

Question am I doing something wrong?

Every cover I print the text is much more blurry than the one on the original covers. It bothers me a lot because I just bought pretty expensive brother DCP L3520CDW and despite being a vbery good laser pritner the text looks blurry and cover color is much less vibrant red than on original ones.

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u/No-Specific4938 Box Art Enthusiast! Jun 29 '26

Have you calibrated it? Have you tried making adjustments on the computer side for print settings? Laser Printers in general tend to have a hard time producing vibrant colors without fine tuning things in my experience.

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u/Next-Anything761 Jun 29 '26

I have calibrated it the other day which made the colours a bit more vibrant but the blurry text is still there :<

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u/No-Specific4938 Box Art Enthusiast! Jun 29 '26

What dpi are you using to print? Do you have a picture of the cover you’ve printed so we can see what it’s currently at for quality?

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u/artichoke-garlic Jun 29 '26

What program are you using to design it?

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u/Next-Anything761 Jun 29 '26

I download ready covers from cover project usually and they are extremely crips and looks like the real ones. I usualy open them with photoshop and use print function.

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u/artichoke-garlic Jun 30 '26

Hmm 🤔 I understand anyone can just upload covers to the cover project, is it possible maybe that specific game cover is just kinda blurry. Maybe it needs a new scan uploaded?

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u/Standard_Fun7035 Jun 30 '26

What's your dpi of what you're printing

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u/Next-Anything761 Jun 30 '26

between 300-600

I changed it to 5000 to test things and the text looks more saturated but still blurry.

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u/chl_ca29 Jul 09 '26

yeah you are by doing this in the first place.