Any information on success or failures of having commercial prints made
of POV
scenes. I'd like to have some 16x20 in. or larger prints made that i
could display
at home. Not sure about rendering sizes vs quality issues.

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"Laurence M. Salme" <lsa### [at] rciacom> wrote in message
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> Any information on success or failures of having commercial prints made
> of POV
> scenes. I'd like to have some 16x20 in. or larger prints made that i
> could display
> at home. Not sure about rendering sizes vs quality issues.


    I have been very happy with Ofoto, but I have not had large prints made.

    http://www.ofoto.com/Welcome.jsp

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"Laurence M. Salme" wrote:
> 
> Any information on success or failures of having commercial prints made
> of POV
> scenes. I'd like to have some 16x20 in. or larger prints made that i
> could display
> at home.

Don't bother going higher than 100dpi. If you can do the final adjustments
in Photoshop 5+ with calibrated monitor and include the ICC profile
in file. Otherwise there is no telling what colors you get.

The most important part is to talk to the guys doing the printing. Tell
them where the image came from, what software was used for editing,
what you intend to do with the print, is color an issue etc. If they
know their job they will ask some more.

In one print shop I was asked: "What's a pixel?" Stay away from those.
Oh, and the guy was sitting in front of a Mac :)

______________________________________________________________________
Kari Kivisalo                                  http://www.kivisalo.net

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I have had good luck getting scenes printed at Instyprints near me.  They
print posters that are 34 inches wide by 25.5 inches tall.  The images look
very clear, but I typically render them quite large.  By large I mean they
are 10240 x 7680. (Tens times larger than typical big screen size.) This
means the images will have to be copied to a CD (they are about 250 meg in
size) and Instyprints wants them in TIF format.  I could render them smaller
but I want to take no chances of them looking "pixely."  I also render them
so if I want to even go larger at some point they will not loose anything.
I render them to BMP and then use a graphics program to convert them to TIF
images.  They charge me about $50 (U.S.) for each print.  They will also
print to glossy stock or vinyl but the cost is higher.

At 16x20 you could probably render half (or less) the size I am and still
get very good prints.


"Laurence M. Salme" <lsa### [at] rciacom> wrote in message
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> Any information on success or failures of having commercial prints made
> of POV
> scenes. I'd like to have some 16x20 in. or larger prints made that i
> could display
> at home. Not sure about rendering sizes vs quality issues.
>

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Find out what the final res of the printer will be then render at 1:1 so
there will be no interpolation. I have several 30 x 20 prints that were made
on a Durst Lambda printer. The dpi is 271, so I made the originals at 30 x
271 (8130) by 20 x 271 (5420). Absolutely amazing color. Find one near you!
(Invisuals in Boston).
D.

"Laurence M. Salme" <lsa### [at] rciacom> wrote in message
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> Any information on success or failures of having commercial prints made
> of POV
> scenes. I'd like to have some 16x20 in. or larger prints made that i
> could display
> at home. Not sure about rendering sizes vs quality issues.
>

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