Enhance a Photo for Printing — Pro, on our server
Print resolution is arithmetic, and the arithmetic settles most arguments. Dots per inch is a ratio, not a property the file carries around — the same 3000 by 2000 pixel photograph is 300 DPI at ten inches wide and 150 DPI at twenty. So the first thing to establish is the finished size, and the second is how close anyone will stand: a print held in the hand wants roughly 300 DPI, a framed picture across a room is convincing at half that, and a poster read from several paces is fine lower still. The free DPI checker reports what your file claims today, entirely in your browser.
Clean first, enlarge second, and never the other way round. The Cloud HD enhancer returns the pixel dimensions it was given, which sounds like a limitation and is actually the correct behaviour for print preparation: an enlarger is faithful, so it magnifies noise and JPEG blocking as diligently as it magnifies the subject. Clean at native size, then take the result to the image upscaler. Its Cloud HD four-times path accepts up to 4 megapixels of input, produces up to 16× the pixels of the input — a 4 MP photo comes back at about 64 MP pixels, takes four to five minutes on a 4-megapixel file, and draws the HD sub-quota — 10 of your monthly runs may be HD-class.
Paper punishes different sins from a screen. Fine speckle largely disappears into ink texture, so a slightly noisy file often prints better than it looks zoomed in. What does show is flatness: skin smoothed until it has no pores, foliage smoothed until it has no leaves, gradients that band across a sky. That is the argument for a reconstruction model over a smoothing filter, and the argument for checking a candidate at 100% before committing to a large print. For prints made from scans, the scanned-photo page covers the capture side, and the sibling on upscaling a photo for printing goes further into the enlargement half.
What a run costs, and where your photograph goes while it runs. One enhancement is a single general Cloud HD run out of 150 a month on Pro Monthly or 200 on Pro Annual; the allowance resets on the 1st in UTC, does not roll over, and is capped at 30 runs an hour. Prices exclude tax. Cloud HD is Pro-only and opt-in, and it is the one part of MiniPx that leaves your device: your photo is uploaded to our server for that run and deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours, processed in the United States on Cloudflare R2 storage and Modal GPUs, encrypted in transit, and never used to train anything. The enhancement model, RestoreFormer++ at present, is named on every result.