signmaster wrote:Technology in that area has a long way to go.
Steve
Destiny wrote:Are you sure about this.. "prints get printed with 15-20 DPI" Have you ever printed anything at 20dpi..?? You would be able to see the pixels..
Image attached is 20dpi. Printed it would be worse and unusable.. I would like to learn more about this.. You are the expert in this area....
Destiny...
Destiny wrote:Pixels do not count when it comes to Vector since there are none in reality, only bitmaps have actual pixels in their makeup...
Destiny wrote:But I did not know that they could produce a high res from just 15 or 20 dpi image... I guess the file size would be heaps smaller... and you could send via the web...
signmaster wrote:Converting complex files to vector is very hard
signmaster wrote:and often produces files that are quite large with lots of nodes. We use Corel Draw, Signlab and Adobe Illustrator and they all crash and have trouble with complex vector files. Also our laser engravers and RIP have problems with complex vector files. Technology in that area has a long way to go.
Steve
Destiny wrote:probably a TIF or perhaps a PDF, not sure, in order to get the better quality..
Destiny wrote:However, in saying you cannot print a photo in Vector is not quite true since there is software that can convert a Bitmap to a Vector..
Destiny wrote:This means you can stretch the images out to a huge image without it pixelising. Not perfectly accurate but the software is getting better..
Destiny wrote:From a distance it looked Ok, but close up it was not so good..
Destiny wrote:Thank you for explaining it...
Destiny..
Destiny wrote:You are the expert in this area....
Destiny wrote:We split the image up into A1 pages which was the larges the print shop could print for us on a budget.. We stuck the images on a large plywood board..
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