Printing blinds - advice on large prints on 'canvas'

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Printing blinds - advice on large prints on 'canvas'

Post by Acheron Photography » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:33 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Folks

I am interested in printing a large photoblind. There are various services, e.g. http://printedspace.com/blinds.aspx.

Has anyone had any experience of this? Presumably printing on canvas is a lot lower res than printing on fine art paper, so a 2400 dpi scan of 5x4 should be OK for a 60x48 inch print designed to be viewed from a fair distance away? Or should I pay up for a higher res drum scan?

Any advice from folks who have experience of this would be much appreciated.

David.
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Re: Printing blinds - advice on large prints on 'canvas'

Post by dave_whatever » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:03 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

That link doesn't seem to work.

You need to check with whoever is doing the printing what res they print at. I know where I get canvasses done its about 150dpi (or is it ppi?) whereas most places printing photos work at 254-300dpi. So yes if printed onto some material like canvas you can get away with a lot more.

If your place prints at 150dpi then your suggested print size would need a scan of about 1800dpi, so you should be OK with a 2400 scan (assuming you're actually getting 2400 of detail...).

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Re: Printing blinds - advice on large prints on 'canvas'

Post by Acheron Photography » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:18 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Thanks Dave: much appreciated. (And I fixed the link.)

David.

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