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corym7161124
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March 30, 2018
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8ft x 4ft printout [branched]

  • March 30, 2018
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ok im new at that this, I'm getting into printing of multiple medias with and ink-jet printer. my question is though if you scale down your image size to say the 9.6 in x 4.8 in and up the dpi, when preforming your print how do you scale it up so you are not printing a 9.6 x 4.8 in and you get your 8' by 4' print out? thanks guys

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2018

But why work at the 10% scale? InDesign lets you make a 96"x48" page.

rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2018

A page can be scaled in the Print dialog. So assuming the printer is capable of printing to 96"x48" paper, it would be just a matter of selecting the correct paper size and and setting the scale percentage. Here the Paper Size is 96"x48" and the percentage is 1000%.

Image pixels would also get scaled, so if an image's Effective Resolution is 600ppi its output effective resolution will be 60ppi (600/10)

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March 30, 2018

Any large format printer is likely to support scaling, in its own way.

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