What DPI Should I Use For Scanning Original Art?

[Caley Tibbittz]

DC's book recommends 450 dpi. I recall Michael Lark saying he uses 600.

I'm doing 24-bit color scans of b&w art, selecting/removing blue lines, and converting to grayscale (which I then boost the contrast on slightly to crisp up). So, it's for b&w art in the end. To be printed at standard comic size.

[Caley Tibbittz]

Hmm, my old-ass computer can't seem to handle anything above 450, so that may have just answered this one for me...

[stevapalooza]

300 is the minimum for professional printing. Going too high will just slow you down. I usually stay at 400

Is the art clean line art? If it is, instead of selecting/deleting the blue lines, turn anti-aliasing off in the Photoshop magic wand tool and select the black lines (unchecking the "contiguous" option will let you select all blacks at once) and just make a copy of them. When you anti-alias B&W line art you can muddy the lines. Turning anti-aliasing off makes them sharper.