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Dmc · 03-04-2004, 06:19 PM

I am often hired to make large printed posters from 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper. I do it 2 different ways. A low-resolution and a high-resoluten. My low-res way is quite simple because my printer has a built in poster preset. It works fine for simple images. but for detailed large images its just too blury and pixelated and I find my current system for hi-res very painstaking and long.
1. Convert the image to the exact size needed in photoshop
2. export the image as a BMP
3. Open BMP in Paintbrush
4. Print the image to an image driver (like Zan Image Printing)
*This step is neccessary because my printer cant handle, for some reason, 1.81 GB of data at a time*
5. after 6-7 hours I print each of the 42 (for a 6x7 page poster(i think)) images one by one and put them together.

Does anybody know of any software (comercial or freeware) that will speed this process up???

03-04-2004, 06:19 PM	#1
Dmc Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 2246 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Audiovox Thera/2032	Poster Printing??? I am often hired to make large printed posters from 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper. I do it 2 different ways. A low-resolution and a high-resoluten. My low-res way is quite simple because my printer has a built in poster preset. It works fine for simple images. but for detailed large images its just too blury and pixelated and I find my current system for hi-res very painstaking and long. 1. Convert the image to the exact size needed in photoshop 2. export the image as a BMP 3. Open BMP in Paintbrush 4. Print the image to an image driver (like Zan Image Printing) This step is neccessary because my printer cant handle, for some reason, 1.81 GB of data at a time 5. after 6-7 hours I print each of the 42 (for a 6x7 page poster(i think)) images one by one and put them together. Does anybody know of any software (comercial or freeware) that will speed this process up???