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design for large scale printing

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  • 07-07-2009 10:04pm
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    bluemoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭


    Hi Everyone.

    Basically i want to be able to design posters and banners for our business.
    And have the design printed by a professinal printer using one of those big commercial colour printers.

    I cant afford to buy indesign (apparently thats what i require) are there any cheaper alternatives which would allow me to do the designing jobs?

    I would want to print everything from a1 posters to large 1000mm x 2000mm banner prints, and even 20ft x 2ft banners....

    How will i do this.
    I presume i willl need software.
    can anyone reccommend some good cheap software for this???

    Oh and also someone told me that with this type of print i will need to make sure that any files are vector designed so that when i blow them up for the larger printsthe pixels wont be blurry?????:confused::confused::confused:.....so ideally could someone explain this and reccomend software that caters for this too.

    Cheers everyone :)

    Bluemoo!!!!!!!!! moooo-oooooo


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    #2
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    EDIT Sorry GIMP doesn't do vector graphics!!! Maybe have a look at http://www.inkscape.org/ instead (Not fully released yet). Or there are always the 30-Day trial versions of Adobe.

    GIMP is open source and pretty good, I am not used many of its features, as a result of not having a creative bone in my body I have used it all of twice I'd say :). I would think that it ought to be capable of doing what you need and if not since it doesn't cost anything you have lost nothing if it can't.

    http://www.gimp.org/windows/

    And a good starting point here:

    http://gimp-tutorials.net/


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