Print Designers
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- D_Dot
When you're working on a large scale piece like say a billboard. Do you work at actual size in photoshop? 180-300dpi?
That doesn't seem right to me.
- Glitterati_Duane0
no you can get away with like 100 dpi I think
- brandelec0
i think you can lower the dpi to 100
- Glitterati_Duane0
Which the wrong coast of Canada lol?
- adamm0
make it at 1/4 scale @ 300 dpi
- ********0
usually the vendor provides specs of what scale @ what dpi
- Tru datDancer
- They wanted final printing size at 180 dpi.D_Dot
- that seems ridiculous********
- +1zachmattheus
- Dancer0
Depends what size but generally half size sometimes quarter size (300dpi).
- D_Dot0
Thanks!
- gramme0
Quarter scale, hi-res. For a billboard, full sized art can be 72 dpi and look just fine. Place impossible-to-miss instructions on the pasteboard that your art is quarter scale and must be blown up before the job goes on press. Tell this verbally to your printer as well in case they don't look closely enough @ your files.
- Thanks, I'm also going to include it in the hard copy I send them... and maybe engrave it in their arm.D_Dot
- ********0
final print size at 180 dpi sounds ridiculous to me.
- capn_ron0
for billboard size, you can even get away with 50-72 dpi to keep your file size down. Ask the people who are printing it and they will let you know the best way to go about it.
I've even used 25dpi, i know that sounds low, but think of how far people are looking at it from.