Printing posters

Borderfox

I am looking for a program or way to print a 2 A4 x 2 A4 poster made out of a picture, anybody know any programs to do it?

DadaKopf

Ask on the Digital Media board. You're talkin' QuarkXpress, InDesign, Illustrator, Freehand, that sort of stuff. You could get by in Word and Photoshop, but they're not made for it, really.

Now, is it A4, A3, or A2 you're looking for? Remember, printers print at 300dpi.

eas

by the description it sounds like your looking for A2 (4 times the size of A4)- Photoshop can do this fine. (DadaKopf why do you say it's not made for this?)

From what I think you want to do, you could try the following :

Interpolating your raw file to A2 (420mm x 594mm) at 300 DPI,use some guides or a grid to cut out the 4xA4s and save each.

Of course if you where looking for one a2 poster, you could always get this done at photobox or similar for a reasonable price?

anyhow, hope that helps. I can give you better explanation if you want....

Borderfox

Thanks eas I will give it a go.

monkeyfudge

I seen a place in Dublin city centre recently that prints A0 size for just €60. I'm sure they have good prices for A2.

You'd only have to bring the image burned to CD to them. Much less hassle than trying to paste four A4's together. Does your printer print all the way to the edge of the page?

Alun

What printer do you have? You can do this in the printer driver itself (under Advanced) with a lot of Epson printers (including mine).

FinoBlad

Is it a one off? I have an A2 printer.

Dubdude

What size is your image if you want i could supply you with a high res print ready pdf?? PM me if your interested

Borderfox

Thanks for all the replys and advice, I have an Epson R200 that will do borderless printing, I wanted to have a mess around doing one or two larger size printouts just to see how they turnout before I get them done commercially.

Cameraman

Try this too (haven't tried it myself, but am about to)

Borderfox

Alun thanks for the advice found it in the printer preferences.

sdssarah

theres a really cheap printers off o connel st, if youre interested. dont know exact prices, but theyre alwayds much cheaper than any other place. Its called aungier print and its the first right after abbey st, its more of a lane way, just before clearys, forget the name of the rd, sackville place i think, you should check it out, if you dont have a large enough printer.

Borderfox

Thanks sdsarah