What is the largest size digital/ink jet print reasonable from an 8x10 and/or 4x5 scanned chrome? Anyone have experience with this?
What is the largest size digital/ink jet print reasonable from an 8x10 and/or 4x5 scanned chrome? Anyone have experience with this?
Is this a joke?Originally Posted by Mauro
They don't make a digital ink jet printer big enough to max out from a 4x5 scan... At 2400dpi scan (a low scan in the professional scan world) you're talking like 4 foot by 5 foot print...
As big as you want. As long as you're not expecting it to look like a contact print when you stick your nose into it. The eye is very forgiving of the close-up quality of mural sized prints. We tend to back away from them, but even when looking closely we don't have the same expectations we have of small prints.
I find that prints in the range of 24 to 36 inches wide are much more demanding than murals. Big enough to require significant enlargement; small enough that we look at them with our small print standards.
Scans of 4x5 Ektar look great from my Epson V700 up to about 40"
OP said CHROME not CN films.
However Fuji chromes scan better than kodak, but they both scan decently. Kodachrome scans more difficultly. But if you have a 4x5 Kodachrome, I'm very jealous.
What does the word "reasonable" mean?
I have done many prints that were over 20 feet. If you want to go large, drum scanning is the better choice. One is limited by the size of papers more than anything. the top papers don't usually exceed 44 inches, altho a few go to 60.
Lenny
EigerStudios
Museum Quality Drum Scanning and Printing
Speaking from experience again?
Mauro, do a search to find many threads covering this over and over.
Here we go again. The CBS outdoor advertising outfit down the street can give you a digital display forty feet wide if you want it. Of course, at the "normal viewing
distance" of two hundred yards it wouldn't make much difference if the shot was taken with an 8x10 or a cell phone. In my case, I rarely like color inkjet prints of
any size. That pretty much simplifies that. There have obviously been certain exceptions. But my own definition of a good-looking print happens to be different than
my definition of wallpaper or a billboard. Other people have different opinions. Do whatever you want.
Funny... Well if I can make an 11x17 (more than ONE FOOT ACROSS) image at 300dpi without interpolation of a 35mm image then I can certainly make a 4 foot by 5 foot image from a 4x5... It's simple math...
Its simple math as long as quality is not a concern.........
Thanks,
Kirk
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