Most PS/Printer combinations will handle up to 30,000 pixels (in any one dimention) so you shoulf have no trouble with a 24×48" at 300 ppi.
In essence you’re saying either program will work for this job. Which do you think would be best or is there a more cost effective program. I have used Publisher for years and just when I’m about to change they improve it enough for my needs. Publisher wants to tile the printing on pages of 11" x 17".
Why in the world would you use either PM (which is all but dead and buried) or Publisher to do this?
Just print them right from Photoshop or save as PDF and print from Acrobat or Reader.
Bob
Thank you. These are just the kind of comments / information I’m looking to find. Will Acrobat do this without loss of quality?
…handle up to 30,000 pixels…
Since Ps CS (well, actually since Stephen Johnson) the limit should be 300,000 pixels.
Any volunteers to check? We’ll bring you some food occasionally.
Rob
I did read 300,000 pixels for photoshop. I’m really a beginnner when it comes to Adobe products. I know this is going to sound ignorant however, what is Acrobat for other than converting scanned documents to a pdf. Is it like Pagemaker and Publisher?
"We’ll bring you some food occasionally."
Heh @ Rob!
Landis, I don’t know what the size limits are in Photoshop Elements, but you might want to post your question in the Elements Forum. I only suggest that because if you don’t have a strong need for all of the features of the full-blown Photoshop app, you’d save a ton of money by buying Elements instead.
While you can create a 300,000 pixel file in Photoshop, you cannot be sure that a printer will work the the PSB file format. The 30,000 limit is the safe one.
Acrobat is a tool for using the postscript language to make graphic files device independent. It is really just an output tool, you always create your work in another program and then use Acrobat to package it up for printing. If your HP 500 people can use it (they should) then it would be a good route to take.
And forget you ever heard the word Pagemaker. It is an obsolete program, and Adobe InDesign is the replacement. And ID is so far above Publisher in capabilities that I choke to say they are both in the same program category.