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Posted by PJ Halls on May 10, 2006, 6:47 am
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B.Feldman wrote:
> Hi,
> sorry,but you write THE SIZE of images boarders, but not it's DPI. Are you
> really want to have the world's map 1:4,000,000 with magazine quality? As I
> know the plotters of such size are not 300DPI, they are 96 or 72 DPI or
> less.
> Boris
>
>>hi everyone,
>>
>>i am trying to create a very large map image in either pdf/tiff/jpg
>>format. the problem is most printer drivers are limited to the A0
>>Oversize sheets. I need everything to be in 1 sheet only.are there any
>>printer drivers that would allow "unlimited" paper size (10mx10m)?
>>
>>thanks
>>
There *are* large format plotters that can print at up to 1200dpi or
higher, but these are specialist devices, rather than your ordinary HP.
The practicality of something larger than A0 depends a) on the plotter
drivers and b) on the control software. For example, we have a machine
that can do 1m*10m plots on roll paper, but the image is rasterised for
the plotter on a controller machine, which then passes the plotter the
print bands in sequence down the page/roll. For this, the plotter only
needs memory for the print bands. Note, that it is not the plotter
*driver* that supports the oversize 'page' but the controller software
... which costs as much as an HP A0 plotter alone! The source for these
plots has to be Postscript, rather than PDF, however.
As has already been suggested, I recommend that you talk to a specialist
print shop about your requirements, what is practical and how that might
be achieved.
Peter
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