design for large scale printing

bluemoo · 07-07-2009 10:04PM #1

Hi Everyone.

Basically i want to be able to design posters and banners for our business.
And have the design printed by a professinal printer using one of those big commercial colour printers.

I cant afford to buy indesign (apparently thats what i require) are there any cheaper alternatives which would allow me to do the designing jobs?

I would want to print everything from a1 posters to large 1000mm x 2000mm banner prints, and even 20ft x 2ft banners....

How will i do this.
I presume i willl need software.
can anyone reccommend some good cheap software for this???

Oh and also someone told me that with this type of print i will need to make sure that any files are vector designed so that when i blow them up for the larger printsthe pixels wont be blurry?????

.....so ideally could someone explain this and reccomend software that caters for this too.

Cheers everyone

Bluemoo!!!!!!!!! moooo-oooooo

marco_polo · 07-07-2009 10:52PM

EDIT Sorry GIMP doesn't do vector graphics!!! Maybe have a look at http://www.inkscape.org/ instead (Not fully released yet). Or there are always the 30-Day trial versions of Adobe.

GIMP is open source and pretty good, I am not used many of its features, as a result of not having a creative bone in my body I have used it all of twice I'd say

. I would think that it ought to be capable of doing what you need and if not since it doesn't cost anything you have lost nothing if it can't.

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

And a good starting point here:

http://gimp-tutorials.net/

design for large scale printing

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