Document setup for large posters?

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Petter_Svensson
Jul 7, 2004
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Hi! I need some quick help…

If I’m about to print a 200 cm x 200 cm poster(or it could be even larger, like 800 cm x 800 cm), do I have to make the document as large as 200 cm x 200 cm? Or can i make it like 20 x 20 and then the inkjet printer will scale it up?

The document will print on a inkjet printer (Gerber Elan).

/Petter
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Gernot_Hoffmann
Jul 7, 2004
Petter,

design the poster e.g. in A4 or A3, depending on your
desktop printer for tests (or a printable square format). Be sure that you have 300 pixels per inch images for the final size for viewing distance 1ft or (300/3) px/inch
for viewing distance 3ft. And so on.
Make an uncompressed and not downsampled PDF.

The large format inkjet RIP can scale PDFs. The quality
of the printed images depends only on the available pixels.

Altogether it would be better to assemble the poster by
PageMaker or InDesign. Empty areas don´t consume pixels then (opposed to PhS where the whole empty page has to be considered as an image).

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann

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