Hi all, and thanks in advance for your insights! I'm designing a custom topsheet sticker for my snowboard that I'm farming out to a service bureau to print on a high-end inkjet. The dimensions are approximately 1' width by 5' height, with a print resolution of 300 DPI. I've finally gotten around to experimenting with render-to-disk (using B5), and have gotten good results ~ but I'm not sure how to get around the standard document sizes ~ i.e, the rectangular image. I need to get a image shape much like the old "tall" Japanese prints. Is this possible? Thanks again!

Yes just go to document setup and unclick constrain proportions. If you wish a 1 foot by 5 foot print enter in the aspect ratio 1:6. Be careful of your intial size because I tried entering 3600 x 21600 (1' x 5' @ 300dpi) and with 284 MB of mem I ran out of memory, so you may have to use something smaller. When you are render to render, got to render to disk and enter 3600 X 21600 (estimated size for a blank scene is 311 MB).

Thanks!

Check with your service bureau about what they need. I have quite large scale images printed for my exhibition work. Some are as big as 5m x 4m ink jet prints. These are supplied to the printer at 25% of image size at 300dpi. I your printer can't answer the question go somewhere else. Good Luck.

And ask them whether 250 or 150 dpi would be enough.

Actually, I work in a service bureau. Depending on the type of inkjet your service bureau is using, 150-250 dpi at 100% might be enough. Often the oversized "plotter" type of inkjets generally aren't too high resolution...300-400 dpi is ideal resolution for OFFSET printing, which is much higher end and a lot less forgiving.

also more expensive..

Aldaron, shouldn't that be a 1:5 ratio? So the render should be 3600x18000. That should give a blank file size of around 186 meg for a 1'x5' pic @ 300dpi (I think! :) )

ooops my mistake, sorry. 1:6 would give a 1' X 6'. My mind must have been out to lunch. :)