At 11:49 AM 3/1/2001 -0800, Richard Brandt wrote:
>Flyers like this are printed at 300DPI. Let's say the
>inage on the flyer is 5" wide (just a guess, don't
>have one to measure) ..this would give us 1500 dots of
>information. If the cabinet is 24" wide, spreading the
>image across the needed space would come out to
>62.5DPI to print with...way too of a low resolution to
>do a decent job...
Why is that too little? Most printing (magazines and the like) are printed
at 75dpi or so ... and that's the real reason why may not work. Your
starting resolution is likely about 75dpi, and you go down (at the same
rate specified above) from there.
So, if your document is 5 inches wide you start with 5x75 or 375 dots.
Spread that over a 24" cabinet and you have 15dpi. While that sounds
like it's not enough, keep in mind how the originals of these were done
(big dots), and how the art is meant to be looked at -- from a distance.
It *MAY* work...
reb
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