Printing a poster, reducing file size

[Ginny23388049x0zx]

HI! so thrilled to find this community, as I am going in circles on an issue of saving a file at the highest res. the printing co. will allow, 150mb.

SO, creating in illustrator, it saved the ai file at 300mg. Reduced it saving as pdf to 200mb. Printer accepts it as high as 150. I compressed the pdf, but then the file is only 4-7mb. I also tried tiff, and dont want jpg. Tiff also reduced to 200mb

Any help / tips/ advice/ magic wand is welcome! Thanks- Ginny

[kglad]

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[Ton Frederiks]

I would use jpeg, high quality jpeg has a a good compression and you will have a hard time seeing the compression on a poster. Jpeg has a bad name because when you repeatedly save the same image as jpeg or use the highest compression it becomes visible.

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[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

To be clear, I would use PDF with JPEG compression, not just save as an image with jpeg compression!