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They are generally 100 pixels square and print out at about 2cm across. They are intended to tile seamlessly.
Commercial use requires a license by the way. The patterns that are online are just for fun...this one (and any of the vector based ones) can be provided at any size you need but as I said, you have to pay to get bigger. Note me if this interests you.
Thus far if it fits the screen it prints on a full page THAT'S a screen
I looked online and see that iphones and such devices are not ideal for viewing graphics. If you want to see detail you have to zoom in whereas with a computer monitor you may not have to depending on how large an image is.
But printing is different...printers look at image size in terms of initial pixels. When they are given a command to print out a graphic at a given size they will usually stretch (thereby distorting)the pixels to accommodate the requested dimensions.
I don't know if you are using the photoshop pattern file or just the jpeg. Photoshop opens a 'New' file at 72 or 96 pixels per inch and should have an assumed resolution of 300 pixels per inch for photographs. This is because the average printer likes 300 pixels per inch of information to work with- but this is not a hard and fast rule.
You need to know how big you plan to print and if the pattern is supposed to be the design itself or only part of the graphic. By itself (100 pixels square) it will print less than two inches square- as a pattern it will look rather small. If you force it to a larger resolution it will become distorted- blurry looking usually. This is because they ARE small resolution files that are free for personal use.
The files that say 'made with vector software' means that I can make a version of the file from the vector that will not distort- it will print sharply and cleanly because resolution will be at 300 samples per inch which is what the average printer is happy with.
I may write a tutorial on the subject because I found all this information very confusing in the beginning and learned a lot over time about how printers handle digital matters.