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Best way to design a poster suitable for printing large?

  • 09-02-2012 12:26pm
    #1
    twirlagig
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    Hi all,
    I want to design a poster for a Charity Event but it'll have to look clear when it's blown up - I want to get it printed on maybe A2 size...
    What's the best program to use for this? Have done some smaller posters before but upon blowing up they've been a bit blurry...
    Also, if I want to send it to a professional printer, what file format would suit them best? Hope this makes sense :o
    Thanks in advance! :)


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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Rastorbator. I'm not even joking.


  • #3
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Rastorbator. I'm not even joking.

    Cheers! That looks like that'll do me fine :)


  • #4
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    twirlagig wrote: »
    Cheers! That looks like that'll do me fine :)

    I'd say give it a test to make sure. What this program outputs is like a dot matrix (or like a newspaper style) photo split over several A4 pages so you can piece them together like a jigsaw afterwards.

    Failing that you'd need very high resolution photos and something like GIMP to manipulate the image.

    http://www.gimp.org/

    (Don't worry about the name, it's safe too. Stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program).


  • #5
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    any decent HP plotter with postscript enabled can be used to print large format pages


  • #6
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    twirlagig wrote: »
    Hi all,
    I want to design a poster for a Charity Event but it'll have to look clear when it's blown up - I want to get it printed on maybe A2 size...
    What's the best program to use for this? Have done some smaller posters before but upon blowing up they've been a bit blurry...
    Also, if I want to send it to a professional printer, what file format would suit them best? Hope this makes sense :o
    Thanks in advance! :)

    If the text and graphics are vectors they'll blow up as large as you like with no loss of quality, images/photos can probably drop as low as 100dpi on a poster as you'll only view it from a distance.

    I would setup/edit my images in GIMP (or Photoshop?) and drop them into the poster layout in Scribus (or Illustrator?) and then add the text and graphics.

    PDF probably, but ask your printer. If you are going to somebody with an A2 printer you won't need Rasterbator.


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  • #7
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Powerpoint is a surprisingly good program to make large posters in. Just set the slide layout to A2 size and work away. GIMP is a lot more versatile but also requires you to learn a bit about it before you can get some work done.


  • #8
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    deconduo wrote: »
    Powerpoint is a surprisingly good program to make large posters in.

    It's not. :D


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