36 x 60 inch file.
You start with something around 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 17 and figure out what
percentage up is needed to create your 36 x 60 inch poster.
9 times out of ten, NO ONE is going to have taken a 36 x 60 inch image -
therefore no matter what, you are upsizing and stretching those pixels.
In fact, our digital camera, on it's highest setting, takes pictures
that are 22 inches at it's widest.
Now, if it's an EPS like a business logo or something on a banner ... No
.TIFs or .PSDs - then you can quite happily design around 8.5 x 11, use
the handy dandy scaler that most print shops worth their salt have on
hand, figure out what percentage the final piece needs to be printed at,
and your full color 36 inch by 60 inch poster file need to be no more
than 1MB or 2 ;) at 266dpi. ;)
We did a LOT of posters. A LOT. I loves posters ... We had a fabulous 36
in wide HP Poster machine in the shop. It was fun!
Cheers,
Erika
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>>| From: Ian Skinner
>>|
>>| Of course if the print is going to be a 36 inch by 60 inch
>>| poster board for display at a convention, even at 266dpi
>>| you have a very large file to pass around. I had to do
>>| this once in a previous job and I am NOT a print guy, good
>>| or otherwise.
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