#rendering signage
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John:
Could you advise me w/ a problem I'm having w/ a job I've taken on.
An Architect's office I do work for needs signage for a booth at a convention.
I came up w/ one I really like and my client loves!
It needs to be approx. 3'x6' and I want it put on Duraflex, a kind of photo
process that yields a very flat and durable photographic print. This will end
velcroed to the booth wall.
The question I have is what resolution do I render to? One salesman for a
photo lab is afraid to try it. Do I render 99,9999×99,999 over the next couple
of months then as the salesman says pay the 250.00 for the film recorder 8×10
then go to print? It sounds suspect to me … like he took the easy way out by
putting
a mega-price on it to force me to use their color plotter. I have several
images I'd like to provide this client but anm at a deadend.
Maybe it is an undoable but I don't know anyone to ask.Help:o-Thanks,Gary
Gary,
You can output to any of the large format raster plotters and have the final
print 'laminated' for mounting in the booth. The HP DesignJet's or Encad
NovaJets work very well for this purpose.
We have software for this purpose called RenderPrint. For poster size printing
we recommend a TARGA (.TGA) file of around 3000 x 3000 to help with the
jaggies, but we have good success with smaller images as well.
If you are interested in more information please call 1-800-825-4115.
Russ
Insight Development
Recently, I had some 3 x 8 posters made through a service bureau that used the
LaserMaster poster-making system. This is a large-format color ink jet
printer. They can also hot and cold laminate.
The price was about $300 total, cold laminated, and they looked great. They
can accept raster images. At this size, the image is approximately 80-100 dpi.
Could you give the name and number of the company that did the printing. Any
help would be appreciated.
-DD
As I said, the company that makes the printer is called LaserMaster. I believe
they are in the Minneapolis area. They sell these printers to service bureaus,
so you probably don't want to call the Milwaukee print shop who did this
printing for me, you want to find a local print shop that has one. Call
LaserMaster at (612) 944-9330. My printer was Alphagraphics at (414) 782-6064.
They were about $6-8 a square foot, depending on the paper quality, but I also
checked out another shop that was about twice the price.
thanks for the info.
-DD
Gary,
I have done similar work for trade shows and this is the steps that I use for
"good" quality blow-ups.
I render the image in the proper aspect ratio @300 DPI
I then added any text required in P-Shop
Sent the image to a film recorder House ( I used TX Unlimited in SFO )
They provided the 8×10 Neg that the lab then put on a foam core board.
My poster size was 6 feet x 7 feet, and it cost me about 4 grand per poster
The resolution was fine for trade shows since most people don't get right
on top of the posters.
Cheers,
Tom
Russ's answer is definitely more educated than mine, since I really don't do
any still output, just animations. I've never tried what you're embarking
on… but good luck
John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)