#HELP – Out to paper
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Hello again,
Another question: I'm outputting some frames of my animation onto
paper, but I wonder what resolution I should use? I want the final
printings to be really nice, printed on photographic paper. Possible?
for the rightious-looking prints, render stills to 2k (2048×1536) and output to
a dye-sublimation printer i.e. tektroniks phaser IIsdx
James:
Peter C. has great advice. FWIW I've printed 1280 x 960 .tif images
on a Kodak Colorease dye-sublimation printer with fine results. I
didn't have the time to render to a larger file size and the
portability of the resulting file was an issue if I was going to get
the images printed quickly. I don't have a Syquest drive or similar
so I was flipping floppies to my local print house. Also, a 1280 x
960 file = +3mb but mine all zipped down to less than 1.4mb so I
could store 1 image per disk. Output is typically 8-1/2 x 11 paper
but the image is subject to a border of about 3/4" on three sides and
1/4" on the bottom. I don't know if this is true of any other
printer than the Kodak. There is also an 11 x 17 format but I
haven't seen this output. I would guess it is also subject to some
required border. Hope this helps.
I just sent a set of JPG's in to Rapid (high end stills bureau) here
in SF. I did JPG's because they were just storyboards, and I didn't
really care too much about quality, but I'm pretty sold on them for
certain jobs. I got an 8meg file down to 500k, and try as I might I
couldn't find any artifacts. There was a lot of black in the image,
so I'm sure it won't always compress that far, but I used a Q factor
of 7. I BBS'd the images to the bureau in around 10 minutes, and had
them the next day. They looked great.
Using JPG's never occured to me for printing out still images. I'll
give that a shot. The file size would really appeal. The only two
programs that my local print house has for importing/printing my
images are Photoshop (mac) and Photostyler v1.1 (pc). I don't think
either can handle JPG. I know I can convert the image in Graphic
Workshop from JPG to TIF and print the TIF out of 'styler. I'll just
have to drop off a copy of Graphic Workshop to the printer. Any idea
if the new version of Photostyler can handle JPG's? Any idea on what
program Rapid uses to print the images. My local guys will probably
buy whatever it takes. They're real new and are knocking themselves
out to be compatible with all of their customers.
Here's a quick one that my girlfriend told me: In an effort to blend
anonymously back into society after his terrible accident John Wayne
Bobbit has changed his appearance and has changed his name. He now
goes by the name Les Johnson. <G>
Robert,
Photostyle 1.1a could handle jpeg. That's what I have. A jpeg'd file (max
quality) is almost impossible to tell from the original without getting zoomed
in 16 times, and even then it's hard. I'm sold on JPEG's all the time now for
print.
Mee too. If I was going to an Iris for a 11×17 for print, I guess I'd go with
tga, but for most stuff that I need prints for (storyboards, still to show
clients), jpg's are perfect.
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
John,
>> If I was going to an Iris for a 11×17 for print <<
I think I'd even use JPEG for that too. I'm tired of splitting and combining a
huge .tga file from a box of floppies and I don't see a syquest or bernoulli in
my future.
That's what modems are for <g>. Just about every service bureau in SF has a
BBS for uploading jobs. It's so much better than having to driver there twice.
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
John,
oh yes, modems! Now I have a 14.4k modem and software which supports
zmodem I can do that. Frankly, I do very little to print. I have sent
flics via modem to clients for review – zmodem is essential, though.
Do you know if CI$ supports zmodem? Because my downloads take ages,
even at 9600 using the CIS B+ protocol.
Did you know that CI$ has a local node at 14,400 baud? That's 33%
faster than 9,600, since your modem supports it. Same price as
9,600! CIS B+ is the best protocol to use here, BTW. No Zmodem in
CI$!
Greg,
>> Did you know that CI$ has a local node at 14,400 baud? <<
I remember you saying that and I'll check it out. However, the big
speed killer is the protocol. Zmodem is probably orders of magnitude
faster than CI$ B+ when d/l'ing large files.
I think CIS is stuck with B+ (they invented it). Zmodem is quite
excellent. I don't do much print work either, but the storyboard
experience has sold me on stills and modems.
John,
>> I think CIS is stuck with B+ <<
as you would say: CIS B+ really SUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKSSSSS!