Size does matter, but seems to be limited

[Peter Duniho]

"Juergen D" <jdirrigl_ns@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
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> An image that large is to be viewed from a certain distance.

It depends. I have seen some full-wall murals that are just as presentable
at six inches as they are at twenty feet. You see different things at
different distances, of course. But you wouldn't want a low-resolution
reproduction.

Pete

[Leen Koper]

Thanks to all of you for your kind.
Delivery wil be at the end of the month as I specified as there is so much to do at the moment, that I don't have time to listen to the intsructions. As far as I could see at the demonstration using the RIP software this shouldnot be that difficult....I hope.

Today I decided to print the image somewhat smaller as I had a quick look at prices of frames that size.... I should have done that before asking this question
Printing at 60x180 cm will do the job of impressing potential customers too I suppose. ;-)

Jodi, of course I will keep in touch to tell wether this printer will be my reliable friend or not.
One thing I can tell allready: my printing cost at the moment will be reduced by almost 50% due to the lower costs of ink by using the 220 ml cartridges. Now 60% if my costs are in inks, this will be reduced to 1/6 of the present ink costs!

Leen

[Nancy S]

Rich,

Would you please run by me the 2xlpi, I've forgotten. Thank you.

Nancy

[Richard Coencas]

Nancy,

LPI stands for lines per inch, which is usually something hidden in the print drive settings and you rarely have to touch it unless you are dealing with high end printers.

The general LPI for most inkjets is between 75 and 150, and the standard forumula for printing is 1.7 to 2x the LPI for best results. So that puts 330ppi on the highest end of what is necessary for a good result and you can usually get away with resolutions of 200 to 240 safely.

Do a Google search. There are lots of good articles and sites on this subject that go into a lot more detail than I can.

Rich

[RobertHJones]

Leen,

I hope that your new printer will turn out to be a reliable friend. As a
non-professional, I will never be able to justify or afford a printer like
that. I can only dream.

I'm glad you will be able to lower your ink costs. You must do a lot of
printing, which means business is good! I looked at the cost of those ink
cartridges and it would bust my budget to replace them all at once.

I wish you the best and hope you get a good return on your investment.

Bob

[Nancy S]

Rich,

Thank you. I've read in a few places that Epsons 'like' to receive an image at 240 res., perhaps this is based on lpi. I'll do some Googling as you suggest.

Nancy

[W Bobrowski]

Also check out this new product from Extensis, pxl SmartScale, for scaling images, within an application like PS Elements, or for output purposes:

<http://www.extensis.com/pxlsmartscale/index.html?ref=hp>

Best regards,
Walt

[Leen Koper]

Just came home from the studio.
Thanks again to all of you for the extra information; I've measured my shop window and looked at the prices of frames this size. The frame will probably 10 times the price if the print......
Nevertheless I think it is worth every penny when I will be able to see the faces of potential customers looking at an environmental portrait of two lovely children at this size. ;-)

In the meantime I learned that bilboards -which happen to be just a little larger- usually are printed at very low resolutions, so I suppose for prints at my size a resolution of about 200 ppi will do.
This means an resampling of about 3x the size of my camera resulution; so, no problem at all.

RobertH, thank you for your kind words. Indeed I do have to print rather high volumes and this printer will get to the break even point within a few months when I compare to the prices of my pro lab and within a year compared to my present Epson 2100 printer thanks to the lower ink costs.
Next to that now I usually try to sell my images at 12x18 as this is the maximum print size of my printer. After installing this "monster" I will be able to sell at 24x36 inches!

I'm so excited about this printer although I still don't have it yet. I feel like a child a few days before boxing day!
As soon as it is operational I will mail you all about my further excitement or dissappointment. ;-)

Leen