Large Fromat Photo Printing
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- theplanet
Any of you photographers have suggestions of where to go to get a high quality, large format print made from a digital image?
I have heard some museum quality prints are first converted into a photo negative. Anyone know or have experience with this?
I'd like to print and image 10'x20', yes the file resolution is that big.
Any thoughts, suggestions or references to studios that I could talk to would be appreciated.
- ok_not_ok0
Check out these guys
- inteliboy0
^ Yup, find a local pro photo lab and they'll be able to point you in the right direction.
- vaxorcist0
I've heard great things about Nash Editions, for museum-quality stuff...
http://www.nasheditions.com/serv…But I think you may have to go tradeshow or billboard printer for an image that big.... not museum-like...
- theplanet0
Thanks for the responses, these look good.
Josh
- theplanet0
I posted this on the weekend. The two places I call ed said 60" x as long as I want was the max they could print. Is that really the maximum size for high quality prints? Could I print out two halves of the image and have them professionally mounted? Would that look bad?
Any thoughts?
- 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...