A tiny print DPI & size calculator (no upload, no dependencies)

A tiny print DPI & size calculator (no upload, no dependencies)

AEFRI engineering note · 2026-11-09

When you prepare artwork for print or POD, you eventually need the boring math: how large will 5400×7200 px print at 300 DPI? or how many pixels do I need for an 18×24 inch poster? I kept reaching for a search engine to answer the same conversion, so I made a single-page calculator that runs entirely in the browser.

What it does

There is no upload, no account, and no network call — it’s plain HTML/JS doing the arithmetic in your browser. It won’t inspect your files or tell you whether a specific print service will accept them; for that you still need to check the service’s current spec. 300 DPI is a common rule of thumb for close viewing, but large-format prints viewed from a distance can work at lower DPI.

Try it

AI disclosure

I used AI assistance (an AI coding agent) to write this post and to help build the calculator. The tool’s behaviour is simple arithmetic (pixels ÷ DPI = inches) and you can verify the results with any calculator.