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That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
So I wasn't too impressed with my handy work here. Things aren't lining up quite right.

So I thought, why not try a printing place? wow bad idea! They wanted $92.72 @ Kinko's for a 17x46 print. I think I finally found a reason to own a printer. It's not cheap for printing your own photos but it's certainly cheaper for posters.

So what printer should I buy? This HP OfficeJet K550 pretty much sucks some serious ass. You print a bunch of stuff, fine, you stop printing, wait a few minutes then print some more. Well now you have to restart the printer because it's stupid. Also it doesn't take legal paper, yes it SAYS it does, but for some odd reason legal paper just DOES NOT fit in the tray. Though if you leave the paper hanging out of the tray it seems to work fine, but that's retarded.

So I was thinking of the Canon i9900, it does 13x19 and the ink is fairly cheap for it. It's $370 Canuck zeny. Does /hr/ have a better idea?
>> ~!-.-!~
First thing i tell my students when they print posters is avoid Kinkos.

I had a Epson 2200ish at an old job that i got some used a bit. I bought a epson paper spool roller and spools of photo paper for it and made some decent poster/banners on it.
>> That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
>>96800
Oh, Epson, I'd forgotten about them. That roll idea sounds great!

What's the difference between optimized-dpi and dpi? I see printers with like 5760x1440 optimized-dpi. What does that mean?

Also, why do the REALLY expensive printers only do 2880x1440?

Avoiding kinko's sounds like a great idea.
>> That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
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Because I feel bad asking questions without posting pictures.
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>>96797
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>>96821
You're right maybe I should have kept a theme.
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>>96800
A thought about the Epson roll, does the paper ever completely flatten out?
>> Anonymous
"I see printers with like 5760x1440 optimized-dpi"

That makes no sense, dpi is dots per inch is (effectively) pixels per inch so whatever dpi a printer is it isnt going to be #x# dpi, it's going to be # dpi.

As long as an image is 200dpi-300dpi then it will look great printed out, anything above 300dpi is retarded, anything below about 170dpi will look retarded.

Honestly I would still go with a print shop, maybe not kinkos but yeah buying a poster capable 200dpi printer is not cheap
>> That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
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>>96839
None of this makes sense. My monitor is something like 100x100 pixels per square inch, that's like 10,000 pixels. It looks great, why does a printer need to print 4800x2400 little dots? that's like 11.5 million dots. And 300 dpi seems rather low, unless it's 300 along one side of the square. Which would make it like 90,000 dots.

Am I making any sense?

All I know is my oooold Canon BJC-600 printed at like 600 dpi and it looked like shit. How can 300 dpi look good?

Why have printer manufacturers confused their customers? also, dye vs pigment? wtf someone make it easy!
>> ~!-.-!~
Yeah it flattens out, after time and or some work to help it along. Heavy binder clips on corners (with added paper for padding), something heavy to attach to to lower clips, then some careful blowdry to the paper. i would pby do it to the backside not printed side while its hanging.
>> Anonymous
>>96839
Incorrect, the resolutions can be an #x# dpi, as it is dots per inch, not dots per square inch. Thus something could say print dots 200dpi wide, but it was capable of accurately moving the sheet of paper along to do 300dpi vertically. thus youd have a 200x300 dpi printer. Though usually you don't see this with printers, only scanners.
>> Anonymous
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I had to print on all A4 papers and then join them up.
>> Anonymous
>>96885
/r/ the last pic on the right,plz
>> Anonymous
there was mention of rasterbator and another program (something with poster in title) does anyone rem. the name and/or url?
>> Anonymous
get a canon 1280 or 1800, reliable and can print 13x19 borderless as well as sheets.
>> Anonymous
>>96905
posteriza?
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not>>96885
and not nearly hr enough but here

>>96905
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
http://www.posteriza.com/es/index.php?lang=en_US
>> Anonymous
>>96908
>>96909
thats the one. Thank you both. :D
>> That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
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>>96907
Those don't sound like Canon model numbers.

However I think I've decided. While I like the roll idea of the Epsons, the cheapest 13 wide I can find is $700 CDN. The Canon is $370, and does 13 wide.

Thanks guys
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>> Willuknight
>>96797
the first one i printed off doesnt line up properly, but my later ones got better and better :)
>> Peorth !7OhYjJmFCo
>>96885
/r/ the Haruhi poster to the left of the one previously requested, thanks!
>> Anonymous
>>96797
Staples has large color prints for $4.20 a sqft so about 25 bucks for the 17x46. I have had at times problems getting them to print some stuff because of copyright issues, it seem to depend on who you get in the copy center.

The canon i9900 is a nice printer but with eight colors the ink can get pricy. it can do 13x19 borderless.

If you got the cash to throw around the HP Designjet 70 or 130 are nice and you can get a roll paper feed for them. (you are looking at about 800 to 1000 bucks tho)
>> Anonymous
I used to work at a copyamx. I have to say that if someone ever came in wanting me to print out anime stuff, i would do it in a fukkin heartbeat. fuck copyrights. I pretty much owned the place back there and could get away with charging whatever i wanted. ask around to see if any friends of friends work at a copy center. it will be MUCH cheaper.
>> That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
>>96980
The ink for the i9900 seems pretty cheap compared to other printers. My current K550 costs like $160 to get new ink for, the Canon would cost $120 for all 8.

I'm so sick of HP everything though. They seem to ruin everything. So I would really only consider Epson and Canon.

Also, the i9900 comes with ink right? or is that how it's so much cheaper than the others?
>> Anonymous
>>96981
This makes me want to get a job at a copy place just to print out my own stuff.
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>>96968
here

>>96885
did anon print all those out ? do u have a higher res pic or can this one be printed out so big ?
>> Anonymous
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Yes i printed them all out from my Epson Stylus Photo 810. This Fate/Stay Night took out 1 cartridge and 12 A4 Heavy Matte papers.
>> OiD
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How do you stick the sheets together? Dou you cut and join them or overlapthe edges?

Cannon Pixma 4000 with a 1600x1200 wallpaper.
Thanks
>> Peorth !7OhYjJmFCo
Erm...what's used to separate the pictures into more than one page before printing? ^^? It was said previously, but I forgot... orz.
>> Anonymous
This may sound stupid, but I have a question, should any old printer be able to do this? My printer is a Dell Photo All in One 942 and I'm wondering if I can do what you guys are doing with that. If not I could try the University's printers.
>> OiD
>>97211
I'm using Posteriza, Another program I have used is Rasterbator.
>>97212
Try printing a page an see how it handles it.
>> Anonymous
From what distance does this poster look good. I mean pixels not visible or picture not seems that pixelated. Could you post a close-up photo?
>> OiD
>>97235
half a meter starts looking good, the further away the better
>> Anonymous
Epson Sylus Pro 9800
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/WideFormat/WideFormatDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&infoType=O
verview&oid=-12805&category=Wide+Format+Printers

We have one of these at work. You can print on canvas which looks amazing.
>> Anonymous
>>96982
I'm with you on HP.
I also was considering Brother Printers.
Anyone own one, if so how is the quality on those?
>> Anonymous
>>97210
could you post the original pic pretty please?
>> Anonymous
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Use Photoshop to break them up, but give allowance to the edges, that means you overlap them. I overlap mine near to an inch.
>> OiD
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I'm out of tape D: I'd love to have a bed sheet like this xD
>> Anonymous
>>97267
Flawless work, there.
>> Anonymous
>>97267
O_o thats kinda hawt could you post the actual picture?
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>>97288
request granted
>> Anonymous
>>97288is a pedophile hideing behind weeaboo expressions.
>> Willuknight
>>97210
i cut off the edges, and then used electrical tape to join them DO NOT USE ORDINARY SELLOTAPE i did that, and the damm tape shrunk from change in room temperature, and almost crumpled my shana picture. I had to peel off all the tape carefully and rejoin it.
>> Anonymous
>>97212
Word to the wise Dell printers are just rebranded Lexmarks (but you cant use Lexmark ink cause of small changes to the cartage) and Lexmark inkjet printers suck.

>>97249
I have had a couple of Brother laser machines and love em but I am no big fan of their inkjet machines. I would stick with one of the big three HP, Epson, or Canon.

>>97246
I have seen one of those and the output sweet (too bad they cost three arms and leg).
>> Anonymous
>>97319
As an epson owner.. i'd say go with canon.

They have individual cartridges for each color, and the epson printer I have refuses to print greyscale if the color cartridge is empty.
>> Anonymous
>>97320
I have heard of the same thing happening with Brother and Lexmarks too.
>> print muppet
some hone know how to print in a bead
>> OiD
>>97308
Crap :(. Next time i'm using adobe and i'll overlap the edges...
>>97327
That would be nice
>> Anonymous
as an HP/Xerox/Okidata printer repair tech I would personally go with one of the newer HP personal lasers(they are cheap, and the quality is cheap as well so be careful when replacing toners; other than that they print nice) or a Xerox phaser wax printer, a bit spendy upfront but wax is cheaper than toner and the print quality on them is quite sexy, the color pallete is great(unlike the HP LJ4600 :O~) What's your spending limit?
>> OiD
>>97267
How did you do it in photoshop?
>> Anonymous
>>97369
Xerox ftw. We have a Xerox Phaser 8400B solid wax printer at work and I've printed out my share of goodies on it ;p Id post a picture of my creations, but stupid 4chan wont let me upload it.. So I can only point you to iichan

http://shanachan.konosutekinabasho.net/sha/res/1676.html

5th post is mine
>> That anonymous guy who keeps asking for help
>>97369
I was personally aiming for the cheapest solution up front. I also wanted 13 wide prints. So the inkjets worked best for me. I'm quite surprised how well the colour laser prints turned out. A few friends were telling me about colour laser printers but I never really believed they could print a good colour picture.

>>97381
I too would like to know how one does it in photoshop.
>> Anonymous
nice printer suggestions, but what would you guys recommend in terms of paper(and size)?
also, are you guys using any programs besides photoshop? are you just printing throught windows...
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Read the thread a bit. People have recommended applications already.

I personally used some 8.5x11 satin finish photo paper. I didn't want the matte look of standard paper, and not the super gloss of glossy photopaper. This is the more expensive route though. 60 cents per page is I believe what the paper cost. So $6 in paper alone for that poster.
>> Rawr !pBDDkuoH3.
>>97396

Ugh...Phasers SUCK. I worked at an advertising company, and here's what Xerox (and everyone else) doesn't tell you.

They use a HALOGEN LAMP and various heaters to keep the ENTIRE DRUM, THE INK RESERVES, AND PRINT HEAD AT OVER 200 DEGREES. Which makes it a space heater and sucks shitloads of power. If it goes into standby, you're not getting shit out of it for a good 5 minutes. Shut it down for the night? Haha, enjoy waiting 15 minutes. On the plus side, once warmed up, it can be pretty fast since it is one pass- they make a HP 4500 look like a snail (one it's going.)

Want to move it around? Too bad, because it's full of hot wax, and if moved while the wax is melted, it'll fuck up the entire machine something fierce (as in, disassembly by trained tech. And with a Xerox, if you don't have a support contract...hoooo boy, $$$.) You have to initiate a "special" shutdown which turns all the fans on to high mode to cool everything and re-solidify the wax, and the printer tells you when it's safe to move it.

The head clogs, requiring cleaning pages to be generated (where it basically just purges a shitload of melted wax through it onto the paper.)

Resolution is quite poor. Well under 300DPI. WELL under. Even text looks like hell. What do you expect from a machine which is basically squirting hot wax at a piece of paper?

The prints are fragile; you can scrape the wax right off the paper with your fingernail like it's candle wax. The wax transfers over time to stuff it's pressed against if it gets even slightly warm (ie, sunlight.) It also fades so badly that prints will be very washed out within 12 months or less.

The wax for older phaser printers is identical in composition to the wax for newer ones. Except...THEY SHAPE THE BARS OF WAX DIFFERENTLY FOR EACH MODEL!
>> Anonymous
How I join up my pictures for a poster is by using the built-in poster printing option on the printer prefrences, but setting it for them to overlap. Then I cut along the cut line of one, and near the line of the other, so I can use Scotch double sided tape to seam the pieces together so it looks uniform and like a single sheet (as in the tape goes on the backside of the side that shows, and the front side of the other one that it overlaps a little). This also prevents any points from sticking out where pages meet. I also cut the double-sided tape into strands so I get 3x my money's worth. I then use scotch celephone tape (don't use duck brand, it sucks ass) to reinforce it from the back. I printed out tons of 4x4 sheets of A4 posters (16 pages of A4 for each poster) a long time ago on my Epson C62 this way, and it turned out great.
>> Willuknight
>>97474

i just installed photoshop, but i cant find any poster printing options, what version are you using and how di u get to them.
>> Anonymous
>>97472
now that you remind me.. the Phaser DOES have many shortcomings LOL especially the headcleaning process.. you can literally hear the hot wax go *Pshhhhhhhhhh* and spray into the waste tray >.<
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>>97474

screencap and instructions of this poster printing option or GTFO
>> Senji
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look at my touka poster... posteriza it's fine too ^^
>> Alister
I assume my printer is far too shitty to be of worth for this sort of application?
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductQuickSpec.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=8255&category
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