Large Fromat Photo Printing
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- bjladams0
i do a lot of museum photos at large scales- here's what i've found to be the best option so far.
most mounting materials come in either 4'x8' or 5'x12' sections - for photos that are, say 20 ft wide by 8 ft tall - we'll print it (720, 16 pass, bi-directional on a mimaki JV3 solvent printer) on five 4'x8' sections (3M matte vinyl with blockout and cold lam), mount to polystyrene, then affix to the wall with stand-off pucks, with the sections about an inch apart. if you try to seem them together to look perfect, the overlap sticks out like a sore thumb - so we make the gaps obvious and it looks more like its designed intelligently.
again, that's just what i've found that works for what we do... i'm not sure your end use. and in the museum stuff i do that's that large, the partitions usually keep people back 4-5 ft or so...