Printing Posters

Hi. I want to print a poster for family as a a Christmas gift, and have been
looking for best method.
Retail over the web, is see prices for a 23 X 35 poster from my digital
photos for about $75.
Thinking of doing it myself on my color printer. Found a program called Pics
Print (http://www.picsprint.com) with a built in ability to span pages so I
can knit them together myself.
Has anyone tried this or other methods of homemade posters?
Does anyone have software suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Harold

Harold Morgan wrote:
> Hi. I want to print a poster for family as a a Christmas gift, and
> have been looking for best method.
> Retail over the web, is see prices for a 23 X 35 poster from my
> digital photos for about $75.
> Thinking of doing it myself on my color printer. Found a program
> called Pics Print (http://www.picsprint.com) with a built in ability
> to span pages so I can knit them together myself.
> Has anyone tried this or other methods of homemade posters?
> Does anyone have software suggestions?

Many Epson printers will print posters directly - if you have an Epson check
the layout section of your printer setup.


It can also be done very well in Photoshop here's a repost of an article I
did some time ago that also discusses how to assemble the sheets with a
minimal seam once they are printed. Since posting this articleI have
discovered that if possible, tape the paper strips together before printing,
and the crease between each sheet will be harder to see.

begin repost:

It's not automatice, but yes, you can print multi page pictures with
PhotoShop with a little bit of work.

1) Resize your image to the size you want your poster to be, at a resolution
of 150 pixels per inch. Make sure the "resample image" box is checked.

2) Save this image under a different name.

3) First drag guide lines to the places you want to make your cuts.

4) To make life easier, double click the hand tool so that you can see the
entire image, and drag the window boundary a little larger so that you have
a gray area surrounding the image

5) Then turn on "Snap to Guides", and make a rectangular selection for the
first image, and use "Select>Grow" to expand the selection by 50 pixels, and
copy and paste this selection to a new image.

6) Repeat this procedure until your panorama is complete.

7) Print each image, and cut off the vertical borders between the sections
you want to join together.

8) Use masking or drafting tape to tape the images together from the back,
lining them up carefully. Note that because you grew the selection, each
piece will overlap by about 1/2 inch. If you want a very precise joint,
continue with the remaining two steps.

9) Put the taped together images face down on a solid surface, and use a
straight edge and utility knife to cut through the center of each
overlapping seam. A new blade will produce a cleaner cut. Cut on a firm
surface, not corrugated cardboard though solid cardboard will do. Tempered
masonite works well as a cutting surface, or cut on a a glass surface for an
even cleaner cut.

10) Tape the images together again from the back to form a seamless joint
between each one. The seam will be close to invisible, even under
magnification.

--

Mike Russell
http://www.curvemeister.com
http://www.zocalo.net/~mgr
http://geigy.2y.net

Harold Morgan wrote:

> Hi. I want to print a poster for family as a a Christmas gift, and have been
> looking for best method.
> Retail over the web, is see prices for a 23 X 35 poster from my digital
> photos for about $75.
> Thinking of doing it myself on my color printer. Found a program called Pics
> Print (http://www.picsprint.com) with a built in ability to span pages so I
> can knit them together myself.
> Has anyone tried this or other methods of homemade posters?
> Does anyone have software suggestions?

For a gift, I would spend the money on something nice and I'd even buy a
frame for it, too.

For my personal use, I'll be frugal with the spending. When it comes to
gift giving, money is a secondary thing to me and the gift itself is
more important.

You can even do it both ways, to see which you like more. Who knows,
your pieced together prints may turn out with no noticeable lines and
even sharper than the purchased print.

Either way, good luck. :-)

Tim

Hi there, I have done what I think is a stunning shot of a Venice backstreet
(canal) made of 4 A3 prints, so it ends up as a very large poster.

I think the trick is to allow yourself enough overlap so that you can cut
with a scalpel to a convenient detail edge, rather than having a hard print
edge, which is always noticeable. You need to slightly angle the scalpel so
you are undercutting and not ending up with a white edge to the paper. If
your photo has some good vertical and horizontal details to cut to, you'll
never see the join. Mind your fingers though, don't want red all over the
print!

Cheers
Andrew

"Harold Morgan" <harold_morgan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I want to print a poster for family as a a Christmas gift, and have
been
> looking for best method.
> Retail over the web, is see prices for a 23 X 35 poster from my digital
> photos for about $75.
> Thinking of doing it myself on my color printer. Found a program called
Pics
> Print (http://www.picsprint.com) with a built in ability to span pages so
I
> can knit them together myself.
> Has anyone tried this or other methods of homemade posters?
> Does anyone have software suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Harold
>
>

Harold,

I usually use an online service for all my prints. I have used both
ofoto.com and photoaccess.com. Both offer 20x30 photo prints for $30 or
less. These are on paper similar to film prints. I have not ordered any
that large, but the 8x10s I have are very nice. For anything larger than
20x30, you will have to go with phooaccess.com (of these two). They
offer inkjet prints on poster paper ($25 for 24x36) and on canvas ($55
for 24x36). Perhaps these options are more in line with your budget.

Ginjer

> "Harold Morgan" <harold_morgan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>Hi. I want to print a poster for family as a a Christmas gift, and have
>
> been
>
>>looking for best method.
>>Retail over the web, is see prices for a 23 X 35 poster from my digital
>>photos for about $75.
>>Thinking of doing it myself on my color printer. Found a program called
>
> Pics
>
>>Print (http://www.picsprint.com) with a built in ability to span pages so
>
> I
>
>>can knit them together myself.
>>Has anyone tried this or other methods of homemade posters?
>>Does anyone have software suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Harold
>>
>>
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>
>