: But better still, most color laser printers and inkjet plotters only need
: about 200dpi to print at their best quality, and if you're going to have
: posters printed by professionals (even at a Kinko's or the like) they
: usually have software or hardware servers that can upsample (enlarge)
: images about a million times better than scaling the thing up in
: PhotoShop.
: As an example, the posters we put together for the M:R tournament were
: 3300x5500 pixels, which printed at terrific quality at 24x36, but we
: probably could have gone much smaller and still gotten good output if
: printed by a pro with good equipment. Most of the stuff I do is around
: that size, and I've printed lots of posters at 24x36" or larger, and
: all look good.
: So just because you have a billion-dpi printer doesn't mean you have to feed
: it a billion-dpi image in order to get a good result. If you have a
: specific printer or printed size in mind lemme know, and I'll tell you how
: big the original image needs to be to print well. I doubt you'll find
: anything on-line that will print larger than 8x10 or so due to the file
: sizes.
Anaphiel is, as usual, spot on..When I printed the M:R poster at 22x34, it was twice it's native size. It was made for 11x17 at 300dpi..so at 22x34 it was "only" 150dpi and the print came out amazingly. It is important what printer you print on and the method of printing, but the resolution doesn't have to be some astronomical number.
If anybody wants a TIFF at print resolution of the M:R poster lets us know on the M:R forums and we can make one available for you. I don't have any previews for it, and the TIFF is a 55MB download, but you can take that to the printer and get it printer as is.
