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- nooner0
advice from someone who owns large format printers, me >>
the res could be as low as 50dpi full size. you can get away with murder on a billboard. just make your files at 1/4 size and make sure the res is at 200 - 250 dpi so when it's enlarged it will be correct. embed or link images (linking will be faster) and make sure all your fonts are created to outlines. trust me. they are going to use .eps / .pdf / or .tiff when they output it. it's basically like a million dollar desktop printer.
and to this
"dude, large format printers won't even handle files that big, they always request stuff at a knocked down size otherwise their machines will die."
i run 3 dual xeons & 2 dual G5's with nothing less than 4 gig of ram in them. minumum of 500 gig harddrives in each, some have 2. i can open, rip and print a 2 gig file in about a minute, so..... not a whole lot of machine death over here ; )
what are you running?