HUGE artwork question
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- ali0
Indesign? Set up at quarter size. Save your pics (EPS of TIFF) with max JPEG compression. Package on fast display option.
- mydo0
I once did a 10M billboard, the printer requested files to be 35PPI
File was less than 500MB.
Jubly.
- non0
work at 50% and make a low res picture (72dpi). You will have to package the original higher res file though, don't think there's any way around it.
- tesmith0
Shouldn't be much different than packaging a brochure or booklet with photography? Confirm optimum resolution with your printer, it may be quite low.
- hellobotto0
1. Find out what final resolution is acceptable/required for production.
2. Assuming you're using a layout application which allows you to link to external resources, create very low-res FPO versions of the images. Use these in your scaled-down layout for internal development and client review.
3. Upon final approvals, send the layout shell and higher-res art together, but separate. Meaning, don't import the high-res art into your layout file, and include instructions for the printer to import the high-res art. You avoid the low-res art from being printed by not including it. When the printer goes to open the layout file, it'll ask for the images. The key to the process, and it can be tricky, is working on all the related materials with minimal mixing.
You might not be able to get away with the last step, but just do what you can to avoid using the larger artwork until the very, very end. Efficiencies gained in early rounds will dull the agony of packaging up the finished work.
- i_monk0
Put it on a Zip disk.
- Zip could cut it too close. Better off relying on a smooth Jaz.hellobotto
- Whoah there...uhh...Syques... Got myself a 200mb version. It's more storage than i'll ever need.Morning_star
- Benja820
Thanks chaps, great help :)
- craigatkinson0
73dpi will do you well
- Amicus0
Do all the Photoshop work late at night so you can use all the power the office can handle.