Scanning old photos

[Jaybegood]

The specs for the scanner are 1200x1200 optical but in hp smarts the max is 300 dpi.  What am I missing?

please help me make sense of this.

[Dragon-Fur · Accepted solution]

@Jaybegood 

If you were using Windows and the full driver printer software, the content could be scanned at a higher resolution.

Windows also supports scanning using the old Paint (mspaint) software to scan at higher DPI / resolutions.

Mobile printing / scanning uses the features available on the printer - for example, 300 DPI.

Example - HP Smart - Mobile - iPADOS - Source = Scanner (printer) - PDF / Image

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[Jaybegood]

Hey thanks Dragon-Fur.  I use my pc far less than I used to.  I new I was missing something. 🙂

[Dragon-Fur]

@Jaybegood 

You are welcome.

There certainly might be a way to do this - depending on your device, there might be "an app for that".  I've not checked into this in some time so I cannot make any recommendations that are not PC based.

Happy New Year 2022 !