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Dr. Joel M. Hoffman - 05 Jan 2007 14:48 GMT

I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I'm looking
for an on-line service that will poster-size canvas prints for me. I
have found many sites on the Internet, but I have no way to evaluate
the quality of each.

I just saw several canvas prints at a friend's house, and they were
beautiful. Some of them, surprisingly, were made from relatively low
resolution files (as small as 1Mpix for about 30x40), so I have to
assume that some sort of file post-processing was involved.

My plan is to print about that size (30x40) from an 8Mpix file and
from a 35mm negative (if I can find a place that will do this!), so
resolution shouldn't be a problem, but I suspect that quality and
price vary widely.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

-Joel

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tomm42 - 05 Jan 2007 15:17 GMT

> I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I'm looking
> for an on-line service that will poster-size canvas prints for me. I
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> -Joel

I used to print on canvas a lot, can be very nice, but have it done by
a reputable firm. This may get expensive, good canvas is on the order
of 3X the price of paper.
As to resolution, with any printing the proper resolution will give the
best prints. Canvas does subdue this a bit, but it still looks better
at the proper res. Now the RIP the printer is using may bring the image
up to the propper res, no way to find this out other than talking to
the printer, some RIPs are better than Photoshop (Genuine Fractals or
what ever you have) some aren't, the printer should guide you in what
they need. 8mp is a good start should easily enlarge to 20x30, 30x40
may be a little stretch, depends on how good the image is, if the
viewing distance is far enough it will be OK.
Use a quality printer, if they tell you they want a 1mp image they are
not a quality printer. Ink jet printing is very much, you get what you
pay for. A 30x40 image should be from at least a 240ppi file so your
file size is 864mb, even if you print at 180ppi it is still a 648mb
file, that is what your printer should work from.
Hope this helps.

Tom

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Dr. Joel M. Hoffman - 05 Jan 2007 15:43 GMT

>I used to print on canvas a lot, can be very nice, but have it done by
>a reputable firm. This may get expensive, good canvas is on the order
>of 3X the price of paper.

Any suggestions?

>Use a quality printer, if they tell you they want a 1mp image they are
>not a quality printer. Ink jet printing is very much, you get what you
>pay for. A 30x40 image should be from at least a 240ppi file so your
>file size is 864mb, even if you print at 180ppi it is still a 648mb
>file, that is what your printer should work from.

I saw 20x30's from 1Mpix files, and they looked good, much better than
I would have thought possible.

-Joel

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Slack - 06 Jan 2007 03:22 GMT

> I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I'm looking
> for an on-line service that will poster-size canvas prints for me. I
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>
> -Joel

I haven't done any canvas work with them, but they are very professional
and good http://www.whcc.com/

As someone else mentioned, be prepared to spend some $$. But it will be
beautiful and probably last a lifetime.

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Slack

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