Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Minimum Resolution For Print

Jalexan opened this issue on Nov 17, 2004 ยท 16 posts


Mivan posted Thu, 25 November 2004 at 7:37 PM

I work for a small national graphics company. We charge $18.95 per square foot for giclee, six color. That is cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta, yellow and black. The prints look pretty good but the price is too high for me. At 2.22 square feet for a 16 X 20 print on Arches cold press 90# paper that works out to about $44.00. Operating at a markup of 40% of retail that comes to about $70.00 that I must charge customers. My first experiment with letting the company print for me was an 16 X 20 image done at 72ppi. Curved lines showed serious pixelation. I now do me files at a minimum of 144ppi in the size they are to be printed at. When I get a larger machine I will increase the file size. Mike