In my editing software using DPP my printer setting is set to 300dpi but when I choose to print in Professional Print and Layout running the cursor over the image the it says 72dpi in the information box. Is this normal? Does it print in 300dpi? Or am I doing something wrong. By the way I shoot in raw.
The answer is yes and no. 72dpi is just the default view and print. DPP is more of a image viewer and raw editor,.... mostly a way to do some quick edits of raw and export to tiff or jpg for editing elsewhere. So you can print by size, so your dpi will be whatever density it is when printed at your selected size. For example if your image is 4800x 6000 which would be about 28megapixels.... and you print it at 8x10 then its 600dpi if your capable of printing at that. 16x20 would be 300dpi, 24x30 is 200dpi.... Ideally you want to use for example Photoshop, select a size and dpi and save to a file to print from that is exactly scaled for the print your making.
