Resolution - Exterior Signs
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- nosaj
I'm designing a 7' by 3' road sign that has a photo in the background. Any idea on resolution, how low can I go?
- monospaced0
you can go really, really, really low...
There's no way you're going to get high-resolution at that size anyway, so just do the best you can and keep everything else as raw type and vectors
- bjladams0
I just did some for the city dept at 4'x8' that i printed at 720 dpi, looked really sharp. then they sent thru some for a walking trail that were 4'x5' at 20 dpi. looked really bad. but that's govt...
generally for street signage, we tell people that if you can look at it on screen at 10" wide for 3 seconds, you'll have a pretty good feel for it while driving past it.
- nosaj0
bjladmas - did you mean 72dpi (instead of 720) above?
- no 720. use a mimaki jv3-sp.bjladams
- huge files, but looked really nice. a waste for a road sign though.bjladams
- but, it's impossible to create an image that largemonospaced
- it's not. we print a lot of really detailed stuff.bjladams
- This a vector file?nosaj
- We talking about the same thing? 720dpi for anything is beyond recognizable (not to mention it'd take a hard drive)formed
- IMPOSSIBLE to create a PHOTO that's 4x5 FT at 720dpi...sorry, but that's waaay too bigmonospaced
- bjladams0
@ mono
have had some clients like the ky derby who have really really detailed large photos converted from film that we print for their museum on a regular basis. also really huge files for vehicle wraps, not all 7' wide single images, but often 4-5' tall 600+dpi- that's crazy dude...monospaced
- well, ok then... back to work.bjladams
- bjladams0
we've also had a couple of these printed out at smaller sizes (around 8 ft wide) for display in showrooms from time to time.
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- mrghost0
I feel that anything over 300 dpi is unnecessary... roadside signage is meant to be viewed from a distance not in a gallery (close and personal)...bjladams is having some fun at your expense.