How to reproduce high quality photographic images with Photoshop??

I'm currently using Photoshop 6. Right now we are reproducing out of
print CDs for small record labels. I scan the covers at 300 dpi and
have a template that is a 300 dpi psd file at about 54mb.
I merge the scan onto the template, add some text and save the file as
a high quality jpeg, usally at about 6mb.
When I print the new jpeg, the front cover that was originally a very
crisp photographic image comes out a bit pixelated, definitely not the
most crisp image you can get.
I'm printing on an HP color laserjet 1500L.
My question is, how can get my prints to look more like the original cd
cover and not a lower quality reproduction?
I can't figure out if it's something in the Scan size, how I'm saving
it, or my printer??
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Mike

MikeD

Re: How to reproduce high quality photographic images with Photoshop??

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:12:13 -0400, "Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> found
these unused words floating about:

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Re: How to reproduce high quality photographic images with Photoshop??

What's a "descreen"? and how do you do it?

Frank Arthur

Re: How to reproduce high quality photographic images with Photoshop??

On 14 Jul 2006 11:48:06 -0700, "MikeD" <mikedunny@gmail.com> found these
unused words floating about:
None of the above ... your scanner is not reducing the halftone of the
original into a 'continuous' graphic, thus when you re-pring with a 600 dpi
(actually lower in colour) printer you're exagerating the previous
halftoning.
You need to 'descreen' the image upon/while scanning!