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what resolution can i print at for wrapping?
I’m looking to do my first wrap soon and get into the market. I was just wondering when laying out/preparing the artwork what resolution do you print at (for photos and complex bitmaps).
I imagine that a high-res image at 20 feet long is virtually impossible to work with, so do you scale the image? And if so, is there a rule of thumb for scaling and resolution? And is your finished image crisp at a 2 foot viewing distance? Or is it mainly printed for viewing from a further distance? Just looking for some pointers, any advice from you wrapping pros would be much appreciated.
Doyle
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You can safely work at 25-50 Pixels per inch (PPI) of print for wraps – IE a 5 ft x 3″ long panel is 60″ x 36″ and thus the image should be at least 1500 pixels x 900 pixels (Which will be acceptable) but prefferably 3000 pixels x 1800 pixels for crisper 2 ft viewing.
This will give you a 16 meg file (3000×1800 x3 (RGB))
You can got to 75 PPI , but its overkill and makes file handling and ripping difficult.
DPI means NOTHING in this regard , its file size in pixels vs size you want to print that means everything -
Thanks Rodney, I have another question. When ripping the image, do you import the file into the rip as one large image for the entire side of the vehicle and let the rip tile the image? If so, how can you setup to do a contour cut around each panel? It seems as though the image would need to be sliced in another program and apply a contour cut, then import the separate tiles into the rip, is this correct? Or is it more common to trim the panels by hand? Thanks again for the advice
Doyle
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