What is the difference between a tiff file and a jpeg file and which is better to use when printing a job?
Jpeg/Jpg’s use a lossy compression scheme that tosses out little bits of data each time the file is edited and saved. This is not ideal when high quality reproduction is desired; jpeg’s are commonly used when displaying images online. Although jpeg is the format digital cameras save the images as, they need to be converted to tiff/tif’s (or some other lossless format) before editing.
