Large Posters & Banners
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- brothernoah
It’s been a long time since I did any print work outside of 8.5 x 11 slick sheets. I was asked to develop posters for a booth at a trade show. I am using illustrator and wondered if I need to design to the size of the output or can I make the images smaller (mainly all vectors).
I am getting sluggish performance on my work PC and last night my MAC was throwing memory “cannot complete, system out of memory” when trying to produce a jpg sample. I ended up producing the jpg but had to save the .ai file to another drive. Also, we are mounting these on 10 x 10 booths with a curtain backdrop. We will have 2 x 4' x 6' mounted posters, a 18' x 1.5' banner and some standard sized posters. The budget does not allow for the purchase of banner stands but will have tripods for the standard posters.
Any advice on the design aspect (File size & performance) and hanging these 4 x 6 posters on a curtain is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
- ian0
I'd set them up at a decent size, thats straightforward to rescale, like either 1/10 or 1/4 size. 1/4 size is usally acceptable, especially if you have any raster images in there. Keep your raster images at least 300dpi, at 1/4 and you should be fine.
If they're vectors they'll be fine, as most printers would accept an eps file, though it never hurts to ask.
If you've set it up to same size and export it as a jpeg it would be fairly massive, especially if you're exporting at 300dpi. Which would explain the memory issues.
- Thanks, i figured I could. You have to see the rasters...They came from a powerpoint slide. (DoD - gotta love it)brothernoah
- ian0
in regard to your note, my reply was running on a bit:
I can well imagine they are gorgeous! Just let your client know what kind of quality they can expect. If possible, set em up at 300dpi, and do a print out of them scaled to the correct size (especially of the powerpoint images). You'll only get a small portion of the design on an A3, but it'll be a good indication of where you stand.
- Quarter inch in the corner of a PPT. Noah. we want these a foot large. Luckily i have some contacts and tracked down some high res. This is what i'm up against.brothernoah
- bjladams0
is the email you have listed active? - I just sent you thru some info.