Does this sound right to anybody here?

[Chris Udden]

Hey, folks,

This evening, I got a photo spec sheet from a client, and because it's after hours, I can't get in touch with to confirm this, but I wondered if this sounds right to anybody:

I shot some photographs for a company that they want to use for print in internal marketing materials. They want digital copies of the images, and the spec says that they want them at 800dpi resolution. Common sense tells me that it's a typo, and it meant to say "300dpi" resolution.

I'll confirm it tomorrow, but in the meantime, I know that I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but can anybody think of any possible application for 800dpi digital images?!

Thanks!

C

[Bill Lamp]

I'd also be interested in knowing what size the final product is going to be. Off the top of my head, the only use I can think of would be for a photo overhead transparency.

Bill

[Burton Ogden]

Chris,

The number of pixels is important. The pixels per inch (ppi) is easily changed in Photoshop without hurting the image, but changing the number of pixels involves resampling. My Epson Stylus Photo printer works well with 240 ppi. I can't think of any printer that can benefit from 800 ppi, but some of the newer high detail printers might.

-- Burton --

[JasonSmith]

I would bet that it's a typo. Or bad print of the specs.

[Eric Purkalitis]

That or some marketing manager who thinks they know what they're talking about. You know the ones who always give you a rough layout that they did in PowerPoint.

[Ken Nielsen •]

High end output imagesetter devices for film and RC paper work at 1200ppi, 2400ppi and higher.

Pretend they know what they are talking about and give them 800ppi for starters.

[Ken Nielsen •]

For images, for offset lithography at 155 lpi, they will need 300ppi images. Surely you are going to call them to find out what the specs really are.

Sounds like a type to me, unless it was for line art imaging.

[Alan H.]

It may be for a Billboard, 14' x 48' or bigger
"Chris Udden" <junquemail@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Hey, folks,
>
> This evening, I got a photo spec sheet from a client, and because it's

after hours, I can't get in touch with to confirm this, but I wondered if
this sounds right to anybody:

>
> I shot some photographs for a company that they want to use for print in

internal marketing materials. They want digital copies of the images, and
the spec says that they want them at 800dpi resolution. Common sense tells
me that it's a typo, and it meant to say "300dpi" resolution.

>
> I'll confirm it tomorrow, but in the meantime, I know that I'm not the

brightest bulb on the tree, but can anybody think of any possible
application for 800dpi digital images?!

>
> Thanks!
>
> C
>

[Chris Udden]

Thanks for all of your responses folks! The consensus is clear: it must me a typo.

Well, I called to confirm, and they DO want them at 800dpi! I asked them why they need them that high, and they said, "In case we want to make posters for our trade show booth."

I told them that that kind of resolution wasn't necessary, but I guess the woman there with the MBA knows more about this stuff than we all do!

I'll do it, but I won't like it!

Thanks again!
C

[Don McCahill]

Actually, I can see the 800 dpi in that case. I assume that for the posters, they want to enlarge the images super-large, and thus would need the additional resolution.