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Anonymous
Question.

What's the best way to make hueg prints from high-resolution images? I have been playing around with Rasterbator but it doesn't look right. I realize it makes the resolution higher by making the picture up with dots, but if the picture is already freakin-hueg, what's the point? It actually makes it look worse. See pictures.

Here's the original pic I'm Rasterbating.
>> Anonymous
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Here's a close-up of one of the PDF pages it generated. This is with a 1mm dot size, the smallest it would let me do.

Notice how the contrast is fucked. And the general blurryness of it. And the colors in the hair.
>> Anonymous
So, is there a better way to do this? I need me some hueg Haruhi print that doesn't look like crap. :(
>> Ikari Yui
I just brought the image over on a USB stick to my friend with the huge-ass photo printer. Printed A1 size, which was quite sufficient for me. No rastering required.
>> Anonymous
4120 x 5917 is enough for a 5 foot x 7 foot poster. why do you need it larger than that?
>> Anonymous
>>104522
>>104524

Sorry. Forgot to mention, I was making a 4x4 sheet letter print.
>> Anonymous
I guess I'll just fire up Photoshop and cut it up manually if there's no better way.

Sadly I just have a 8.5" printer here, no large-format printers for me. That's why I was looking for something easy to do it with.
>> Anonymous
try google's picasa, it has a poster maker built in
>> Anonymous
>>104538

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it.
>> MR. Anon
>>Here's the original pic I'm Rasterbating.

*stifled snicker*
>> Anonymous
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Thanks. Picasa seems to be exactly what I was looking for.

Here's another Haruhi pic for helping.
>> Anonymous
Microsoft paint does a surprisingly good job printing a big photo onto multiple sheets of paper as well.
>> Anonymous
Check your yellow pages under signs and printers. Find someone who advertises large format digital printing.

Call for quotes. Prices will range greatly depending on the owner of the shops and their overhead. Some have high minimums, some print on premium papers, some have standard color correction fees.

Try to explain that you're not terribly particular on exact color matches and that you were going to just print the image out for your own wall on multiple sheets of copy paper. You're not picky (unless of course you are, in which case you can get it printed on canvas with a stain-proof lexan laminate).

See what you can get. By the time you pay for ink for your printer, piece it all together, and possibly ruin a few pages in the process, you might have just as well have gotten it printed all in one piece for not too terribly much.

You could also see if there are any places with a flatbed printer. They could print the image directly to foam board or coroplast (plastic often used for real estate signs).
>> Tak
>>104519
/r/ the other half of mikuru's boob!
>> Anonymous
If you're a college student, or know someone who is, check to see if there is a wide-format inkjet printer on campus. At the university I attend, there's one of them in a computer lab that prints on rolls of paper 3 feet wide. You can buy 48 hours of access for $25, which is pretty cheap even if you only print one poster.
>> Anonymous
>>104685
That's the full pic. STFU and go fap already.
>> Anonymous
maybe i should try to print something on the uni din a0 plotter or something...
>> Anonymous
>>104556

WOW RASTERBATING SOUNDS LIKE MASTERBATING

YOU ARE TEH SMART
>> Anonymous
>>104538
I don't see anything related to multi-page poster printing in picasa at all. Lots of nice single-page options, but that's it.
>> Anonymous
>>104793
OH HO
YOU CAN'T SPELL MASTURBATING
YOU ARE TEH SMARTER