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Has anyone printed their work on a large scale?
Thinking of something printed on canvas up to A1 size (594 x 841 mm or 23.4 x 33.1 in)
I've tried an A3 inkjet print with an image rendered at at 2000 pixels high and it seemed OK, but don't want to shell out hard cash for a larger canvas print if I need to render the image much higher.
Remember that print should be 300 dpi (minimum), especially for images. For an A1 size print, in 300 dpi, you'll want something like 7016 x 9933 pixels (approx).
The ratio is 1.45:1, btw. (So as long as you keep to that, some variations will be tolerated).
You also need to remember not to have a compressed image. If you're gonna send it to print, save as a TIFF, or other non-compressed types. Don't save as JPG, don't save as PNG (although the PNG is usually fine, I would still not recommend using that)
Thanks, that was roughly the figure I arrived at, I was hoping I'd not got my head around it or that someone had tried it with a lot less res and had good results.
Well, depending on what exactly it is you're gonna print, you may (and I emphasize "may" here) get away with say half that resolution, and blowing it up. It might work out fine. What you can do, for starters, is divide it by 4 to get to A4 size, then render that, and blow it up to double size and print on A3, just to get a feel of how it will look "blown up" - if the result is satisfying, you can probably get away with that on the A1 as well (although any issues will be more easily seen). Either that, or you'll have to stitch together multipe renders for the final image (if the resolution is too demanding)
That's a very good idea, final print on canvas was going to be a Harley Quinn portrait but the texture of the canvas may help hide the fact it's not 100%
Ah, if it is canvas, you're not as limited, as the canvas (depending on what kind of canvas, of course) will have a coarse structure which will "hide" some of the imperfections. 150 dpi will work just fine, most likely.
No idea but if I were able to render it HUGE, then Id rather squish it to fit than stretch it. Also a long while ago I considered printing photos huge and read about certian formats having different color schemes. So red might appear pink depending on whos printing it out and what you saved it as.
I never got into it that deep but perhaps someone with more experience can add something.
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