Your PC is rubbish and can’t handle full scale artwork?

Neither can mine, so the best thing to do is to scale it down to half or even quarter size when youre designing it. When you give the file to the printers they will scale it up at their end without much loss of quality (none if its all vector!). As long as your original pictures and images are of a decent quality, your scaled output shouldnt be too bad.

Dont confuse ‘file size’ with quality though. Depending on how people save their images depends on the file size. I’ve seen the most rotten ‘high resolution’ images go through the mill and still surprisingly come out the other end as bad if not worse.

If in doubt about the quality and general merits of your image, why not ask someone who might have some knowledge of how things turn out in print? - that is instead of assuming that it will look OK and hoping for the best.

There is nothing wrong with asking for advice…. it could save you time and money.

Tags: large format, posters, print design

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