I am trying to raster some eps files into Phostoshop CS 2. Client wants them printed very large, so I want to have as many pixels as I can get.
I have a G5 Quad, with 12.5 Gigs of RAM. I was able to import at 720 dpi about 44 inches wide. This was the limit the program gave me, and it took a while!. I have memory prefs set at maximum 100%.
What controls the limit of how much I can get? Is it better to export frrom Illustrator? Are there other things I should know?
Should I anti-alias – there are fine lines in the image and I wouldn’t want them to widen…
I have an Aztek Premier drum scanner, the finest ever made – it does 8,000 dpi and 8,000 dpi optical. Most of the files we start with are 1.7 gigs (over 300 megapixels). I can do larger, but it is rarely necessary… oops, sorry for the plug – I can’t help myself sometimes.
Ramon – yes, I installed the plugin many moons ago John, CN – client wants a 60 inch or larger print. Output is defninitely continous tone, device is 54 inch wide Roland d’Vinci system, best printer in its class, outdoes the Epsons by a mile. Resolution question is interesting – I want at least 300 dpi for as large as the client wants to go. Prefereably more. There are many very fine lines drawn in Illustratrator that will show at a rez lower than 300. I will output crops today at a large size so that I can see what will happen at the full size.. using the 32,000. I rasterized them so that they work work with my profile – client didn’t assign a profile at all and worked in cmyk. I could send them along that way to the RIP, but the color space is so small… basically SWOP. My whole system is tuned to perfection in RGB. The RIP does the CMYK conversion. I think the correct answer is that the eps parser is stuck at 32,000. However, I think I have enough… that’s about 80 inches at 360 and I don’t think he’s going to ask for more than that…
CN – I do know it does. The first tries failed, but I got it after a bit. I have tried to ignore Illustrator…. but apparently can no longer. It has gotten a lot better over the years…
So what is this about the illustrator gradation tool not letting one get a darker black?
So what is this about the illustrator gradation tool not letting one get a darker black?
Not sure what you mean, but if you are using C0 M0 Y0 K100 as your black, then that is not the darkest black available (the darkest black would be a rich black) Of course using a rich black may mean you have problems keeping the gradient neutreal (assuming you have a gradient from black to white) If your gradient is from black to a colour, then that problem is academic.
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