Is Monday the 13th as unlucky as Friday the 13th. It felt like it to me after having to reprint a couple of jobs. Or is that just me being stupid.

Customer	Status	Description
LD GC John AC Robert KF Ruth Ross Chris es SR SS SS SR Jenni katherine	In Production Finished Retouched Printed Printed Order Order Printed Ordered design In Production Finished Finished Printed Order Order	5000 4/4 postcards for Love Dartmouth 10x10 inch Art Canvas Reprint 2x Black and White Family Canvas Prints 14 x 10 inch. 8 large s/d Vinyl Prints for drinks company for the side of Air Hostess Trolleys. 8 s/d Vinyl Prints for drinks tray A0 Football Print 2pp A0 Football Prints A0 Scan and Photo Print 5pp a4 on Foamex 5 800x25 Panoramic Reprints on Foamex 4 A3 Photos on Foamex 7 A4 Photos on Foamex 7 a1 posters 3 Banners Stands Lectern 56x120 on 5mm foamex Lectern 90x110 on 5mm foamex Mod 4500x914 on 5mm foamex Mod 2743x800 on 5mm foamex 5000 4/4 postcards Correction to PDF Convert bitmap image to vector Fridge Magnets 12x18 inch canvas of Girl Photo print with text on it. Size to be confirmed

Poster, Canvas and repro Job in production

We have gained a new client today which was good as they ordered 56 A1 Photo print that were laminated and mounted onto 5mm foamex. The Job had to be turned around in 24 hours as the art exhibition is tomorrow. Nothing like leaving it to the last minuet.

Customer	Status	Description
1V AC RP ESWS SS AC SS KingsD Green	Finished Finished Finished Finished Finished Finished Finished Finished Printed	20 A1 poster on Blue Back - Babacombe 100 A4 Print Laminated Mounted 2mm card + Strut 80 Fine art prints 30x36 cm Event Boards Name Boards Table Front Convert Logo to 2,3,4 colours P&P Boards on 5mm Foamex - 2.4m x 0.5 20 x A4 Poster prints Art Collage expo Prints - 56 A1 Photo print laminated and mounted 20x12 inch canvas print of holiday snap 16x12 inch canvas print of dogs

A lot of business use Graphic Designers to produce their posters for printing and I would suggest this is the best option instead of designing your own posters if you want a quality design. But sometimes having a poster design may not be cost effective for you. Maybe you are wanting to design a Wanted poster for a Birthday party, or a poster for a charity event or for school.

So what I would suggest that you do is download a programme for free from www.adobe.com and as long as you have not done it before then you can download Photoshop, Illustrator or Indesign for free for 30 days. This is a much better option than trying to struggle will Word or PowerPoint.

Once you have downloaded the software you can then start designing your posters.
See the below tips for designing a poster.

Keep your viewer in mind.
Have a short sharp headline.
Simple but stunning image - Try and keep it to one image like a movie poster.
Use clean simple typefaces (That people can read)
Don't have to much info. For example if someone is driving past a poster they need to read the important bits.
Telephone or website in large type.
Use a call to action - Like "Order Today" or "Buy Online"
Find a place where you can get poster prints from like us.

Good luck - And if you get stuck then we can design it for you!

When it comes to large poster printing, don't think that you have to order your posters in the A0 A1 A2 or A3 sizes. This is a common misconseption by quite a few new customers as they think their large posters will have to be printed at the above sizes. Because we print onto a roll of paper that can be up to 1118mm then size does not matter.

This means you can order the bespoke custom poster size that you need. If you have a bespoke poster size then give us a call or contact us for a price as we could save you money on your print.

The other advantage by coming to us for your large poster printing is that we will check your files over before printing and will report back to you if there is a quality issues with the artwork you supply.

You do not have to have your large poster printing onto paper as there are other substrate that my be better for your projects. For example we can print onto outdoor waterproof substrate or produce Foamex Panels that are printed and laminated. So please give us a call on 01803 866060 or contact us for any questions or help.

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I have been in the printing trade for more than 20 years now and have seen a lot of changes. And back in 2001 I went to work for Debenhams to work in their Pre-Press department. In that department we use to prep up files for Litho, Digital and Large Format Printing.

While I was there, Debenhams had 20 Encad 50 Inch Printers. These were used to supply the 100+ stores with all there Pos posters. It was incredible the amount of work that we use to through all these large format printers and it was incredible about the amount of issues we came across with the Large format Printers. (I am lead to believe that now only have one large format printer that produces all the work. While I was there i under took an ICC colour Management course which solved a lot of colour issues that we had.

After leaving Debenhams in 2004 I started up my own Large format Printing business with an Epson 9600. It did everything I need it to do. Then in 2007 I took over Scriveners Reprographics. Because there were some big changes in the print trade which would effect Scriveners I decided to make the main part of the business being Large Format Printing. After selling Epson Printers on ebay I decided to Buy two Canon IPFs 12 colour printers. to this day they still see me proud.

But what now. As I am looking and buying another Large Format printer in the next 12 months and there is so much to choose from and what they can now do amazes me. Here are some examples.

The Epson GS60000
A 64 inch Solvent Printer. I have heard some good reports and bad reports.

Canon imagePrograf IPF9000
I do like my Canon printer as it produces very nice fine art images and photo prints. But I prefer to widen my services and keep the old printers for now.

Mimaki
This printer gives you the option of white and metallic inks. Sound good, but is it? will I used the extra inks that much?

Oce Arizona
Now this is a flat bed large format printer. Ok I like this and Océ is part of the canon Group. How I would like this to be my next step but my pockets are not deep enough.

There are so many Large Format Printers  inc HP who uses latex inks.

Then I came across Direct Jet printer that was on the Russel Brown Show It is a bit small for me but its interesting.

I will be looking deeper into a lot of large format printers over the next few months and will keep you up to date with my findings.  Cheers Jake

I Get asked a lot about Paper Sizes...

So I thought what a better way of sitting down and publish a few pages on paper sizes. For the ISO Paper sizes between A0 and A4 are listed below in each link. You will find the measurements in Millimeters, Centimeters, Inches / Decimal, Inches / Fraction, Points, Picas and even pixels at 300, 150, 72 ppi as CMYL, RGB, Gray Scale and Bitmap.

Help it helps with finding the paper sizes you want.

 A0 paper size | A1 paper size | A2 paper size | A3 paper size | A4 paper size.

High resolution images are required for printing, but how high depends on the viewing distance.

But first you need to understand What DPI, PPI and LPI means. (If you know this Skip to resizing images)

DPI means Dots Per Inch (DPCM means Dots Per CM)
In application like Photoshop they use the term PPI or PPCM The First P just stands for Pixels.
DPI tends to get used more often than in PPI in conversations about size of photographs. But in general the following should be used.
DPI - Refers to Dots per inch on printers like inkjets or Imagesetters and DTP Systems.
PPI - Simply refers to Pixels per Inch for digital images and Monitors.
LPI - Which refers to the screening of traditional print like magazines. Often written as oftern 175# or refered to as "Screen Rulling"

This is an example of if you were taking an image to Digital Print, Photo Prints and Canvas Prints.
The Image is viewed at 72PPI on Screen - The image resolution should be set to at least 150PPI - The inkjet printer would be printing at least 2400 DPI  - (LPI is not used because no screen ruling is used).

This is an example of if you were taking an image to Traditional Litho Print.
The Image is viewed at 72PPI on Screen - The image resolution should be set to at least 300PPI - The imagesetter or CTP System will be set to at least 2400 DPI  - The screen ruling for the Images on the printing plate will be between 133# to 200# This is defined by the quality of the paper.

Resizing images

First of all you need to know what the  PPI needs to be for you printed product.

For Fine Art Prints and Magazine prints the PPI needs to be about 300 PPI (120 PPCM Aprox)
For Canvas and Photo Prints the PPI needs to be at least 150 PPI (60 PPCM Aprox)
For Large Posters that are being viewed from a few meters or more then you can go as low as 72 PPI (30PPCM Aprox)

Now if you own a copy of Photoshop then you can constrain the width hight and resolution to adjust your image to the correct resolution for print.

If you don't have photo shop but you know the pixel width and hight of the image then use the sum below
Example of an image that is 3000 x 2000 Pixels

(Please not that for PPCM has been rounded of to the nearest 10 to make the calculation simpler)

For Inches (example for canvas prints at 150 PPI)
x PIXELS ÷ y PPI = z Inches
3000 PIXELS ÷ 150 PPI = 20 Inches
2000 PIXELS ÷ 150 PPI = 13.33 Inches

For CM (example for canvas prints at 60PPCM)
x PIXELS ÷ y PPCM = z CM
3000 PIXELS ÷ 60 PPCM = 50 CM
2000 PIXELS ÷ 150 PPCM = 33.33 CM

If your image is two small then there is some software on the market that will grow your image better that Photoshop.
However when growing an image it does not work to well on jpg images that have lost quality due to being compressed to much.

If you are ordered a canvas print or photo print from us then we can grow your image for Free.

Have you got a funny picture of a friend or Family member. Or maybe a funny picture of you cat or dog.

If you have -  then you can have you funny picture printed onto a large poster print. This is great way of embarrassing your friend or Family member if its there birthday. If required we Can scan from your old funny photos and enlarge them up for a large funny poster. please contact us for more details and a price.

Now a great way of display a funny picture of you cat or dog would to have it printed onto canvas.

Large Poster Printing
Also known as large format printing, offers printing opportunities which your company may not have thought to previously tap into.

We can give you professionally finished results in a size which you may not have previously not considered. Sometimes when your printing posters need to go large, there are quality compromises which have to be made. With the latest technology in large format printers, that is not the case as they can be utilized to print with a range of inks, substartes, lengths.

If your need to have some extra Large Posters for a Sale and you need them in a hurry then give us a call on 01803 866060 for your printing needs.

High Quality Large Posters Printing When It Counts