Files For Large Format Printing

How much Resolution Do You Need?
What Resolution Should Your Images Be?

When organizing files for large-format prints, you have to think outside the box. Because a big format printed work is significantly larger than a pamphlet, any mistakes you make will be more noticeable.
We will go over the following steps in this blog:

• Adapt images to the viewer’s distance
• Your Screens Should Be Calibrated
• Make use of Adobe photoshop Soft-Proofing tool
• Typography to Vectors Conversion
• Save the file as a Suitable Type

Adapt images to the viewer’s distance

If you’re creating a mural that will be visible from a near distance, make sure it’s vivid sufficiently. A 300 dots per inch (dpi) should suffice for this type of printing.

A widespread assumption is that a bigger print demands a higher definition, although this is not always true in large format printing. If your print will be seen from a greater range and you have a 300dpi image, you must reduce the image resolution to 100dpi or even less. It can allow you to keep the size of the file down for faster compilation while still giving you a wonderful photo from a distance.

Calibrate the Screen

You and the printing service provider must be certain that what you are seeing on you. Screen will be replicated properly when printed. You would not want to waste time, paper, or ink if the colors are incorrect, the fonts are lacking, or the artwork is cut out.

The only method to prevent this terrible series of occurrences is to appropriately adjust and optimize your computer screens. This entails adjusting the brightness, intensity, gamma, and color to particular industrial requirements.

The following are the acceptable standards:

• 0.4 for black and 95 for white brightness
• The colour temperature of white is 6500K.
• Two gamma

Additionally, you must confirm that your displays and the screen of the printing company are set to the same numbers.

Use photoshop’s soft-proofing element

The soft-proofing option in Photoshop modifies a picture’s on-screen view to reflect how it would look once printed while not affecting the picture’s number of pixels. Images on adjusted displays typically have greater brightness and a color options spectrum than otherwise.

You can see how your finished item will look using the soft-proofing tool, which decreases the possibility of regret after everything is done.

Convert fonts to vectors (create outlines)

If your project includes text, make sure to transform it all to vector art before exporting and sending it to the printers. That’s because the printer may not have the precise font you’ve selected and may change it to a standard font, ruining your design and overall appearance.

Additionally, vector art expands smoothly and aids in creating tiny, easy-to-transfer data. That’s because it’s best to change any typefaces you’ve used during your project to vector artwork before highlighting them.

Save the file as an appropriate type .PDF, .EPS, .AI or actual size in JPG are the most common file types, and it’s ideal to save the two versions — one for yourself and another for your printers. Create a backup for yourself that you can change since you wouldn’t want to stay there and redo everything.