Large Format Print
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- abba_cadaver
I have to do a large format backpanel ASAP and ive never done one. any suggestions on building, saving files. Sources of examples of good work, minimum and maximum font sizes for ease of viewing etc.. Any help would be appreciated. Ill be on google if you need me thanks
- kodap0
bump this for Bio tomorrow, he is the NT'er large print advice man around...
my brother works on a company of large-format printing, but I have no experience on that field,
one thing that he told me is that if you increase the dimensions, it's safe if you decrease on the resolution...example: you have a 8x8 inch print to make, do it at 300 dpi, if you have 16X16inch 150dpi will be enough, at 32X32 inch sized document, 96 dpi for print will be good and so on and so forth.. till 32dpi (the minimum I worked on -large outdoors)
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work with TIFF's and a good amount of memory...that's all I know so that a print work can come out decently... (but not sure) and all depends on the print hardware and pre-print employers you will deal with.
- abba_cadaver0
Thanks Kodap. This is now being bumped for bio. Also (this may sound dumb) if you do hairlines on 5"x5" it looks good but i would imagine it would look pretty bad scaled up proportionately to 10'x10' any know a good size to get that thin line look on a large format.
- iSolve0
the hairline should look proportional when you scale the print, but if you are wanting less weight in the stroke don't scale the stroke widths when you enlarge (this option is in illustrator's scale box).
i could help more if you could give you starting image quality, and if you knew what the viewing distance is going to be.
where is the lfp going?
what program are you using?
have you ever used genuine fractals?
- abba_cadaver0
Thanks for helping isolve. the maximum resolution they will accept is 150dpi. Ive never used genuine fractals. Im doing it all in (well mostly) in illustrator. I assume most people will be about 10ft away (it will be at a trade show as a back drop)
- abba_cadaver0
oh yeah and as for images i dont have any yet so i cant say. and i dont even know what LFP is
- BonSeff0
its always a good idea to mock it up before you send it to print. tile it off your inkjet. that way you can look at it and make your adjustments