I'm having issues getting good quality printing for a power point. I asked our IT department what the issue can be and they say it's because we are printing from power point. Can I convert the powerpoint into something else that will print better quality? Any advice?
You can convert it to what you want and then try to print it with the free online converter called Media Convert media-convert . com
you need to define what isn't good about the quality of your prints, is it the colour depth, are your images pixellated, the wrong size? If it has to do with images looking pixellated in a print, but not on screen that's because one a normal print there are 300 dots of colour per inch, and on a screen there are 72. This means that you need to be able to zoom in to ~250 or 300% normal size and still have the images look good on your screen, for them to print out at the quality you see when they are at 100%. It's a bit confusing, but tips for the future: use the biggest images you can, and even if you have to bring them in to powerpoint and manually scale them down, that's the only way you can get a decent print out of those images. Otherwise I don't know what to tell you - Powerpoint is made for screen viewing, and it's printing features are limited. It's the wrong medium for powerpoint. If you're designing a document in powerpoint for the purpose of printing and NOT showing on a screen, you ought to use a multi-page layout program like Quark, Indesign or Scribus. inDesign is what professionals use to make books, magazines, and pretty much anything you can print, and Quark was the old standard a decade ago (it's still a good piece of software, but indesign is better) Scribus is a free and open-source program you can download that works similar to both, and it runs on windows, mac and linux. I used Scribus for my very first print job that went to presses (brochure) and it's where I learned multi-page layout. http://www.scribus.net I hope this helps, and I hope you get some stellar looking prints
it's the background screens we select that are printing choppy it seems! The background screens we have using powerpoint.
if you save it as a PDF from PowerPoint, and then open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader (which has EXCELLENT printing capabilities) you will be able to print out the best you can from that original file.