What's the best way to get a quality image printed?

I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Take it to your local print shop and discuss your requirements with them.

David

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:10:42 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Take it to your local print shop and discuss your requirements with them.

Kinkos?

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:15:49 -0800, Square Peg
wrote in :

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:10:42 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Take it to your local print shop and discuss your requirements with them.

Kinkos?

Costco.
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John
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Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

That information doesn't really say much, what matters is the actual
pixel dimensions of the file. In windows holding your mouse pointer over
the file for a moment it should say:
....
....
....
Dimensions: 4500 x 3000
....

Divide those numbers by 300 to get a good guess at ideal max print size.
My example numbers would match the original 15 x 10 size if it was
scanned at 300 pixels per inch.


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On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:52:49 -0500, Shawn Hirn
wrote:

In article ,
Square Peg wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:10:42 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Take it to your local print shop and discuss your requirements with them.

Kinkos?

No, a real photo studio. You didn't say where in the world you live, but
look in your local yellowpages.com directory for "photo studio" to see
what turns up.

When you say "photo studio", do you mean a photographer?

The yellowpages.com search turned up aerial photographers, commercial
photographers, portrait photographers, and photogrtaphy & videography.
Except for the aerial photography section, the other sections had most
of the same people listed. I called a few and they all suggested
Kinko's. ;-)

I live in the SF Bay Area (peninsula).

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:53:07 -0800, Square Peg
wrote in :

The yellowpages.com search turned up aerial photographers, commercial
photographers, portrait photographers, and photogrtaphy & videography.
Except for the aerial photography section, the other sections had most
of the same people listed. I called a few and they all suggested
Kinko's. ;-)

Yuk!

I live in the SF Bay Area (peninsula).

Try Costco instead.

--
Best regards,
John
Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:53:07 -0800, Square Peg
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:52:49 -0500, Shawn Hirn
wrote:

In article ,
Square Peg wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:10:42 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Take it to your local print shop and discuss your requirements with them.

Kinkos?

No, a real photo studio. You didn't say where in the world you live, but
look in your local yellowpages.com directory for "photo studio" to see
what turns up.

When you say "photo studio", do you mean a photographer?

The yellowpages.com search turned up aerial photographers, commercial
photographers, portrait photographers, and photogrtaphy & videography.
Except for the aerial photography section, the other sections had most
of the same people listed. I called a few and they all suggested
Kinko's. ;-)

I live in the SF Bay Area (peninsula).



Check out www.mpix.com . They do excellent work, with super
service and turnaround time.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:59:14 -0500, Stephen Bishop
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:53:07 -0800, Square Peg
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:52:49 -0500, Shawn Hirn
wrote:

In article ,
Square Peg wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:10:42 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

Square Peg wrote:
I have a png image that was created by a graphic artist. I would like
to get a high-quality print made.

The image is a collage of digital photos.

I thought someone here might be able to suggest what I should do,
since you must do this fairly often.

In its native form, the image is about 15 x 10 (inches). The size is
12.7 MB.

Thanks

Take it to your local print shop and discuss your requirements with them.

Kinkos?

No, a real photo studio. You didn't say where in the world you live, but
look in your local yellowpages.com directory for "photo studio" to see
what turns up.

When you say "photo studio", do you mean a photographer?

The yellowpages.com search turned up aerial photographers, commercial
photographers, portrait photographers, and photogrtaphy & videography.
Except for the aerial photography section, the other sections had most
of the same people listed. I called a few and they all suggested
Kinko's. ;-)

I live in the SF Bay Area (peninsula).

Check out www.mpix.com . They do excellent work, with super
service and turnaround time.

I took a look. They seem very professional. Unfortunately, they only
accept JPEG and TIFF formats. I have an image in PNG format that was
created by a graphic artist.

It looks like MPIX caters to more knowledgeable people and they sorta
assume that their customers have Photoshop (or similar) to change the
format of the image to match their specs. I don't.

Square Peg wrote:
[]
I took a look. They seem very professional. Unfortunately, they only
accept JPEG and TIFF formats. I have an image in PNG format that was
created by a graphic artist.

It looks like MPIX caters to more knowledgeable people and they sorta
assume that their customers have Photoshop (or similar) to change the
format of the image to match their specs. I don't.

I would be surprised if the three IrfanView program could not convert PNG
to TIFF completely without loss (it does so the other way round). You may
need to watch the pixels per inch value in the TIFF file, as the print
shop may use that to set the size of the image. Otherwise, be sure to
tell them how big you want the print.

David