[ambrosiabaptism]

Does anyone have a 600dpi image of Moses (or others) that they could send me.

Does anyone know how to contact Matt (his website isn't working) to ask directly and to get permission to use this image. - strictly non commercial use only

TIA

[Sacked...]

Ask Mike at black rat press ?

[Martin Whatson]

Sorry to be asking, im just curious, but why do you need 600 dpi? I know a bit about printing, but are any printers that good??

[jusdeep]

Seems a bit strange to me. A 600dpi image? In my experience the only time I would ever use this high a resolution would be if I was scanning something.

[junkieart]

600 is an odd request? 300 dpi would be the norm for litho? the only reason for 600 dpi is for newspapers as they print in a massive crappy dot!

[jusdeep]

Most newspapers print at 150dpi, magazines anything from 200 to 300dpi, depending on paper stock, printing method and printers they use. I would only scan a newspaper or magazine from printed matter at 600dpi as this would hopefully replicate the image without any loss in image clarity. 300dpi in 99% of cases is fine for any printed matter.

[ambrosiabaptism]

Arrh tech heads

Sorry I don't know enough about these things I said 600dpi because that is was the fella in the repo shop said would be good enough for him to blow up to any size. I would like a A0

So what would be the lowest / optimum dpi I would need ?

[bullet]

blimey, even 96 sheet billboards are not 600 dpi, where are you putting it, the moon?

[spirit]

Something to bear in mind here is that resolution is relative to physical size - the dpi stands for Dots Per Inch - so you can have a 1 inch square image @ 600 dpi and it will only be made up of 600x600 dots - it will have a pretty small filesize and will not be able to be blown up very big. On the other hand an A4 image @ 600dpi will have a large filesize and can be blown up to a very big size - the point is that stating a resolution without stating a corresponding physical size is fairly pointless.

The bigger an image is (physical size) and the further you are away from it when viewing, the lower the resolution needs to be. A 96 sheet billboard will therefore have a large physical size but a low resolution - not a high resolution. Take a close up look at the big posters in underground stations for example - the dots are massive - but they look fine when viewed from the usual distance. At the other end of the scale, an image in a magazine will have a small physical size but a high resolution.

Having said that artworks for large posters are usually made up much smaller than the final size and then scaled up when printed. So an artwork might be made at 25% of final size for example and the image used might be 600dpi. When the image is output, it is output at 400% and the resolution of the final image therefore ends up at 150 dpi (600/4).

It is often better to look at filesize than resolution when deciding how big an image can be blown up as filesize is a factor of both the physical size and the resolution. It is actually surprising what you can get away with when blowing up images as long as the original image has a reasonable amount of detail in it to start with - a photographer friend on mine showed me some A2 prints that were made from 11mb files and the quality and sharpness were amazing. I printed out some A1 images from 25MB files and again the quality was superb. If you want an A0 image I would think 30Mb would give you acceptable results and 50MB would be great.

[Martin Whatson]

Thanks for the explenation spirit!

I just wondered what kind of printer that could print upto 600dpi!
Most printers cant print much more then 300dpi max!?

Let me know if you get a good sized one and i might be interested in borrowing it from you!

[Deleted]

Try romanywg
I know he has some great photos of Matty's work, if possible just buy a print they are great value, signed, ltd ed and cheap too, oh and legal

www.blackratpress.co.uk/product-youngstarr-1.php?gallery=yes