Can digital art that is produced with programs like MS Word or Power Point be used to decorate mugs?
Most digital art that is produced and/or embedded within programs such as MSWord (or similar other “writing” programs, even Power Point to some extent) and also use so-called clip arts from various sources and libraries do not have sufficient resolution to be used in a satisfactory manner for the decoration of coffee mugs – or any other means of graphical hard-copy reproductions. Internet art only needs to have a resolution of 72 or 96 dpi’s (dots per inch) as this is the standard resolution of the web. Digital files used for print reproductions should have a resolution of 300+ dpi’s so that the result will be what you would expect – straight lines, minimal pixellation, no stair-steps. Since almost all inexpensive and/or freely down-loaded clip-art from web sites, etc. etc. is raster/bitmap art, it cannot be up-sampled from the original 72 dpi’s to, let’s say, 300 dpi’s, as the computer would not know where to take the “missing” pixels from to fill the void. Thus it just interpolates t
