Large Format Prints
As an experiment, I took a shot from my XT to Costco and had a one-hour 30x40 poster printed. It had remarkable clarity from an 8mp camera and made a wonderful gift to a friend (of her grandchildren).eryck wrote: thats reasuring 12X18 seems ok so far the largest I printed was an 11X14 at the WalMart print shop (lol) it was from a Hockey game and didnt turn out how I expected so I got my own HP printer that I use once in a while for 8X10 size prints, I have been unsuccessful at B&W with that at first they were turning out fuzzy and green but I upped the sharpness and added some brightness> A photo I took from a night club turned out very well actually.
BUT I want to go big and knowing 200 DPI is a starting point makes a lot of sence, maybe if I want poster size I can expect some loss in the image and should be prepared to componsate. if there is any way of knowing what to expect when going beyond the recomended settings?
Not bad for a 3.3mb jpeg. The print cost about $15.
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That's why if you leave the DPI blank, it uses ALL it has.
Any upsizing will require software to fill in missing bits. Let the best software (at the print shop) handle it.
Matthew
As pointed out, you need to format the image for 8x10, 5x7 or 4x6 etc. You will lose some of the image for different print "formats" not print sizes. An 8x10 and a 16x20 are the same format.
Matthew L Kees
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"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Trust your lab. If you can't trust your lab, find a new lab.
For instance if you are using Mpix.com they say their RA-4 printing machines can't take advantage of resolution higher than 250 ppi. But since their machines are likely to resize whatever you send in they advise not resizing at all. Let them do it one time rather than you do it once, and then they do it again.
If you are using a lab that can't deal with resizing on their own it's a lousy lab.
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