Film v Digital

[Anex]

I think that's a technically incorrect statement.

No it isn't. I was referring to the resolution of the printed image, not the image in the computer.
Yes, the resolution is the resolution, which is why you can't print 6mp @ A0 at standard print res.

 

[cliffpatte]

Rico, you are wrong and should stop digging a bigger and bigger hole.

 

[Rico]

Cliff, I am not digging a hole.

review the thread - it seems that only you and I have any actual real world experience of printing above A3.

Everything else listed here is based upon theoretical arguments.

 

[Joe P]

I don't mean to be bragging here, but I once printed a poster that measured 4 x 6 feet at 300 dpi. I think the .tif came in at ~700 MB.

If anyone wants to blog this on some nerdy site I'm OK with it, but please don't use my real name.

Joe

 

[Cesare]

I'll just say i've got some lovely 12*16s from 6mp cameras hanging on the wall, and i've just finished printing a Delta 3200 35mm shot to 12*16. The 6mp shots are very clear and fine, and the Delta 3200 is grainy, and contrasty, and also rather fine in a different way. Wouldn't be happy with one and not the other.

 

[cliffpatte]

it seems that only you and I have any actual real world experience of printing above A3.

OK, so, did you scale the image up first ? Or not? If you didn't, did you select the option for the printer to automatically scale it?

 

[Patrick Dixon]

I don't mean to be bragging here, but I once printed a poster that measured 4 x 6 feet at 300 dpi. I think the .tif came in at ~700 MB.

My 4x5 scans are more than a GB ....

Not many are worth printing though.

 

[Joe P]

Patrick,

My 4x5 scans are more than a GB ....

With LZW lossless compression?

Joe

P.S. My output wasn't a photograph, though. It was a conference poster made in Quark, output as an .eps, then rasterized in Photoshop to a 4 x 6 feet image at 300 ppi.

 

[martin clark]

We've an A0 colour plotter at work. Printing anything other than vector (drawing) files generates staggeringly-large plot files, as you might expect. Say 300 x 300 dots x 24 bits of colour x 48 x 33 inches approx ~ 625MB in CMYK inks (although it will do a true 600*600!) even if the source file isn't.

Doesn't guarantee the results look any good without suitable prescaling of course....

 

[cliffpatte]

murder over the issue ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aHfJ7pC3AQ

it's actually on ITV right now oddly enough.