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I recently needed to print a large picture for a semi truck. It was an oval pic of a wolf standing on a ledge, in the moonlight, howling at the moon. In the face of the moon was an image of an Indian. I use PC's and just couldn't get my puter to send the file as it was just under 500 megs. It was this big because I had blew the pic up to 22.5 wide and about 32 long.
After struggling, I went into photoShop, mask off the top half of the pic, saved it then inversed it and saved the bottom half. I then imported both fiels into Corel, matched them point to point and put a cut line around it. I then selected the top half and the cut line and sent it to print. When it was done it goes back to the exact same spot that it started at. I then selected the bottom half and the cut line and sent it again to print. So it cut twice but Viola! A beautiful pic with no seam.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412
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Just a suggestion....try saving the image at between 108 and 125 dpi (in TIF or BMP format). Do a test print and compare the image to the one you just printed. I'll bet you won't find much difference in appearance and a much smaller file size.
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I had it set at 600 dpi. I'll try lowering the dpi and printing just a little square to see if what you say is true.
I have another one that I have to do. Customer created a nice little sun burst for their tanning salon. He did it in some little program but now I have to blow it up to 84" to put on their sign.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412
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