I printed out my Afenland map by going to the local UPS store and used their large format printer and am pretty disappointed with the results.

Some background: I wanted the poster to be the same size as the map appears on my screen in photoshop when zoomed in 100%. I found out that my screen DPI is actually 93, however in photoshop when I use that DPI and press "Show print size" it always zooms out, this also affects the image as shown in the image settings too, of course. What I found was that photoshop thinks my monitor is at 72 DPI because I set the image to that and i press show print size and it stays 100%. Again, this weird because this makes the image larger than it should be. I used a ruler and it is correct in scale to the screen at 100% when at 93 dpi. Very strange.

Anyway, I set the image to 93 dpi (without resampling) when I printed it.

The results were not good. It came out looking blurry and bad. Please see the following pictures I took of the printed map. I included my finger in them to show a contrast between how blurry the map is compared to my finger.

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I don't think the problem is one of 93 DPI. While I am thinking of perhaps just trying again by resampling the image to 300 dpi and hoping that was it, on my digital version as viewed on my phone and my monitor the map looks crisp at 93 dpi. I don't think thats the problem, and I don't want to risk spending $25 dollars on another gamble.

Are UPS's printers just not good quality, or does anyone have any ideas as to why it turned out so badly? If it was just UPS having bad printers does anyone have any recommendations as to where I could print my maps in a high quality? The biggest I need to print is 29" x 32". Thank you to anyone who may help!