Well I have to present a project in a paper of size 168x60cm. I just opened Photoshop and created the document with 300ppi, as I usually do. But man, that's around 20.000 pixels. My computer handles it ok but the file is 800mb and I just started... I guess if I try to print it the printer will explote and I'll be the headline of the local newspaper. So I resized the whole thing to 150ppi and now the weight is around 100mb. Is it still too much? Does anybody have previous experiences printing in big size? Is 100ppi enough or it will be blurry? Thanks

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Well I have to present a project in a paper of size 168x60cm. I just opened Photoshop and created the document with 300ppi, as I usually do. But man, that's around 20.000 pixels. My computer handles it ok but the file is 800mb and I just started... I guess if I try to print it the printer will explote and I'll be the headline of the local newspaper. So I resized the whole thing to 150ppi and now the weight is around 100mb. Is it still too much? Does anybody have previous experiences printing in big size? Is 100ppi enough or it will be blurry? Thanks

You know what any of those numbers that you put in mean?
As in ppi(Pixels Per Inch)

I mean whats the big deal on my school we easily print documents of plus 100 MB(believe me if you try this stuff on a windows it makes sense windows pc's are not made for this).
But stil printers should be more then capable to print this size of documents, what you are probably doing wrong is printing as a pds.


With the sizes you are doing your looking at magazine levels of quality.
Which equals high quality but lower quantity since this would mean offset pressing which is uber HQ but the print plate wares really quickly.
Therefore this is for low quantity not for high quantity's .

But you don't need that kind of stuff what i think you need is decent graphical knowhow.
Not to be mean but you seem to lack it.

If you need help you can always ad me on msn since i think your trying to use PS for something it was mot intended for.
But also a handy dandyn tip never print as a PDS or a or a file associated with a certain adobe program ALWAYS and i repeat ALWAYS print a PDF.

I repeat always print as PDF

Can't you go to Minuteman or the Spanish equivalent? They would do that.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

You know what any of those numbers that you put in mean?
As in ppi(Pixels Per Inch)

Sure I do

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

I mean whats the big deal on my school we easily print documents of plus 100 MB(believe me if you try this stuff on a windows it makes sense windows pc's are not made for this).
But stil printers should be more then capable to print this size of documents, what you are probably doing wrong is printing as a pds.

I usually print in A3 at 300 or 100ppi but this time is the exam so we need a bigger paper and is the first time I do it, that's why I'm asking for advice

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

...But you don't need that kind of stuff what i think you need is decent graphical knowhow.
Not to be mean but you seem to lack it.

No offense don't worry, but what do you exactly mean?

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

If you need help you can always ad me on msn

Thanks a lot, I will.

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since i think your trying to use PS for something it was mot intended for.

Trust me I know what is Photoshop for. Since I'm a car desgin student Photoshop is my girlfriend


Hope to see you online

Quote from piggy501 :

Can't you go to Minuteman or the Spanish equivalent? They would do that.

Is that a place to print? In that case I know many of them here in Italy, that's not the problem

You just need to find a printer outside which does banners and outdoor ads, shouldn't be hard to find.

200mb isn't much though, an A1 poster with decent detail would have easily gone over that, my local printers don't usually have trouble handling such files.

Don't convert to PDF unless you really have to, there's a bit of compression, I generally uses TIFF.

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Trust me I know what is Photoshop for. Since I'm a car desgin student Photoshop is my girlfriend


Hope to see you online

Sorry but if ps is your girlfriend why do u use Photoshop to draw??, its for editing photos Illustrator is for drawing.

Not to be mean im just saying since a lot of people make this very typical mistake.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

Sorry but if ps is your girlfriend why do u use Photoshop to draw??...

Did I say I'm using it to draw?
What I'm doing is the composition with previous scanned pencil sketches, photoshop renders, 3d renders, etc

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Did I say I'm using it to draw?
What I'm doing is the composition with previous scanned pencil sketches, photoshop renders, 3d renders, etc

Oh okay that makes a little more sense then.

But does the printer give you a specific error and what kind of printer is it?

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Oh okay that makes a little more sense then.

But does the printer give you a specific error and what kind of printer is it?

Well, probably I didn't explain myself properly in the first post, so I'll try again.

I have to make a composition (3d renders, sketches, etc) in a paper of size 210x60 cm (just realized 168x60 wasn't enough). I usually print in A3 so I have not previous experiences printing something that big. I started to create the file and noticed that 300ppi is too heavy, just insane, so I was wondering if 150ppi is enough for a good quality. I'm also interested about the memory limit that a decent ploter usually has. Of course I'm not gonna print the Photoshop file, I usually do it in JPEG, but just in case. Suggestions about this as well? I don't wanna spend X amount of € printing it and have as result a blurry and crappy presentation.

Thanks for your patience

JJ72, what is the advantage of TIFF format?

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Well, probably I didn't explain myself properly in the first post, so I'll try again.

I have to make a composition (3d renders, sketches, etc) in a paper of size 210x60 cm (just realized 168x60 wasn't enough). I usually print in A3 so I have not previous experiences printing something that big. I started to create the file and noticed that 300ppi is too heavy, just insane, so I was wondering if 150ppi is enough for a good quality. I'm also interested about the memory limit that a decent ploter usually has. Of course I'm not gonna print the Photoshop file, I usually do it in JPEG, but just in case. Suggestions about this as well? I don't wanna spend X amount of € printing it and have as result a blurry and crappy presentation.

Thanks for your patience

JJ72, what is the advantage of TIFF format?

150ppi should be fine i think.

The crap printers at my college easily handle ~600mb files so if you find a specialist printing place you'll be fine.

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JJ72, what is the advantage of TIFF format?

Better preserved details within a reasonable filesize.