Supported Image Formats and Image Sizes

This section provides information on the supported image formats and image sizes.

Important: TotalFlow Prep only supports images that use the RGB color mode.

Image format		Colors
TIFF (multi-page supported)	Uncompressed	Black and white (1 bit) Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
	CCITT G3 FaxMH	Black and white (1 bit)
	CCITT G3 FaxMR	Black and white (1 bit)
	CCITT G4 FaxMMR	Black and white (1 bit)
	TIFF-MH (Huffman RLE)	Black and white (1 bit)
	LZW	Black and white (1 bit) Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
	JPEG (JFIF) - YCbCr	Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
	PackBits	Black and white (1 bit) Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
	ZIP (Deflate)	Black and white (1 bit) Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
JPEG	Normal	Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
JPEG	Progressive	Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
PNG	Normal	Black and white (1 bit) Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)
PNG	Interlace	Black and white (1 bit) Grayscale (8 bit) Index color (8 bit) Full color (24 bit)

Colors	Max. size	Max. resolution	Max. pixels	Examples
Black and white (1 bit)	330.2 × 487.6 mm (13 × 19.2 inches)	1,200 dpi	20,000 × 30,000 pixels	Tabloid (11 × 17) 1,200 dpi (13,200 × 20,400 pixels) Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 600 dpi (7,200 × 10,800 pixels) Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 1,200 dpi (14,400 × 21,600 pixels)
Grayscale (8 bit)	330.2 × 487.6 mm (13 × 19.2 inches)	600 dpi	7,800 × 11,520 pixels	Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 600 dpi (7,200 × 10,800 pixels)
Full color (24 bit)	330.2 × 487.6 mm (13 × 19.2 inches)	600 dpi	7,800 × 11,520 pixels	Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 600 dpi (7,200 × 10,800 pixels)

Colors

Max. size

Max. resolution

Max. pixels

Examples

Black and white (1 bit)

330.2 × 487.6 mm (13 × 19.2 inches)

1,200 dpi

20,000 × 30,000 pixels

Tabloid (11 × 17) 1,200 dpi (13,200 × 20,400 pixels)

Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 600 dpi (7,200 × 10,800 pixels)

Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 1,200 dpi (14,400 × 21,600 pixels)

Grayscale (8 bit)

330.2 × 487.6 mm (13 × 19.2 inches)

600 dpi

7,800 × 11,520 pixels

Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 600 dpi (7,200 × 10,800 pixels)

Full color (24 bit)

330.2 × 487.6 mm (13 × 19.2 inches)

600 dpi

7,800 × 11,520 pixels

Tabloid Extra (12 × 18) 600 dpi (7,200 × 10,800 pixels)

Important:

The maximum supported image size depends on the printer selected for the job. If you use a printer with long paper support, you can add larger images.
Alpha channel transparency is not supported.
If the resolution of an image file is not specified, TotalFlow Prep automatically sets the image resolution to 200 dpi.
If you add to the job an image file that exceeds the maximum size but not the maximum pixel count, the resolution of the image is increased, up to the maximum resolution, so that the image fits within the maximum size.
If the image exceeds the maximum pixel count or if the image cannot fit within the maximum size even after increasing the resolution, the processing depends on the color mode of the image:
- Black and white (1 bit) images are reduced to the maximum size supported by the printer, keeping the original aspect ratio. However, if the Maintain original aspect ratio when resizing oversized originals option on the Preferences screen is not enabled, they are reduced instead to A3 size at 600 dpi.
- Grayscale images are converted to black and white and follow the same process as black and white images.
- Full color images are reduced to the maximum size supported by the printer. The original aspect ratio is always preserved, regardless of the settings specified on the Preferences screen.
If you use edit original functions for transparent images, the image colors might differ from the original ones.