Tuesday, 8 May 2018

A few questions about printing large banners

When it comes to file preparation of large-format banner printing, there’s a different mode of thinking. The traditional rules of file dimension and resolution used in standard offset printing don’t necessarily apply. Where traditional print methods have you working in the 300-dpi (dots per inch) range, large format basically reverses that thinking altogether. This is where a number of traditional print designers and desktop publishers find themselves in unfamiliar territory. There’s a common misconception that bigger files need more resolution than normal print jobs—this is simply not true. All this does is give you a really huge file size. Preparing files for Large Format Printing does not usually require the higher 300 dpi image files commonly associated with other printing methods.

The banner I'm printing is mesh and primarily text. It has a few colors, but no images. What dpi should I be printing at?

Additionally, when uploading my image to Vistaprint, does it matter what type of format its in?

Thank you.



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