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Firebat138:
Well... like I said... use the 100-150 rule... take the dimensions you need and then multiply the width x 150 and there you have your resolution. regardless of dpi/lpi/ppi or opp... :-) If you look at my cab in my sig, all of that artwork STARTED at 300 dpi, but I was working on it at home, and my home computer blows... So I had to reduce it just to work on it.
What kind of hardware are you referring to, computer specs? or printer? I use a HP Designjet 5000 42" Plotter with High Gloss film. I print out posters with this, ALL my artwork on the cab except for the CPO, which Scott at mamemarquees did for me. The file I sent him I believe was 300 dpi, you can see a closeup in my thread. Hope that helps a little... PM me for details, I can print you out a text print if ya want, and ship ya a sample... New York is right up the road... :-)
D_Harris:
--- Quote from: Firebat138 on February 26, 2010, 04:28:46 pm ---Well... like I said... use the 100-150 rule... take the dimensions you need and then multiply the width x 150 and there you have your resolution. regardless of dpi/lpi/ppi or opp... :-) If you look at my cab in my sig, all of that artwork STARTED at 300 dpi, but I was working on it at home, and my home computer blows... So I had to reduce it just to work on it.
What kind of hardware are you referring to, computer specs? or printer? I use a HP Designjet 5000 42" Plotter with High Gloss film. I print out posters with this, ALL my artwork on the cab except for the CPO, which Scott at mamemarquees did for me. The file I sent him I believe was 300 dpi, you can see a closeup in my thread. Hope that helps a little... PM me for details, I can print you out a text print if ya want, and ship ya a sample... New York is right up the road... :-)
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I was thinking in terms of a printer. And I assume a P4 with a couple of Gigs of ram is ok for this.
I was thinking about getting an Epson Stylus PRO 7600 for the kind of art-work I want to print out.(At 24" x 36").
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
ubiquityman:
--- Quote from: D_Harris on February 26, 2010, 03:52:33 pm ---Well, if you have to use a magnifying glass to see jagged edges then for all intents and purposes there are none. ;D
I would ask what is the best DPI/LPI for artwork, but that would depend on what kind of artwork we are talking about.
Side-art and marquee artwork is typically low in detail.
Nevertheless, since I'm working on a unique art project where the art will be along the lines of that seen on the cover of Heavy Metal Magazine, I would like to get opinions on what kind of hardware is needed for that.(I have my eye on a printer if I can't get it done anywhere else).
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I was just trying to compare apples to apples.
In terms of printers, how many prints are you going to do? I have an Epson 6-ink printer to print on CDs and it's a love-hate relationship, but mostly hate. Most inkjets nowdays have a head cleaning cycle (aka intentional ink wasting cycle) so that if one uses the printer infrequently enough, there is more ink that goes to head cleaning than to the printed material. Some inkjets signal the ink carts as empty based on number of pages printed even when there's 50% ink left.
If you print frequently enough I can understand the convenience and possibly cost saving to print it yourself, otherwise, I would send it out.
In terms of printing, you should be OK with 2GB of RAM, but you will need a chunk of HD space for the spooler to create a temp file.
Your printed image is going to generate 24x36x2400DPI^2x3 is 13.9GB of raw data. Most of that will get spooled to the HD. A fast computer will help a lot for jobs that size.
Firebat138:
I really cant express enough that an image that is 24x36x2400DPI^2x3, IS WAY TOO BIG. :-) unless you are confusing the dpi and lpi thing again... which would be an image at 57600 x 86400 pixels. Even with my Dual QUAD core and 16gb of Ram, I could not possibly create such an image...
Ginsu Victim:
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