> Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:29:57 +0200 > From: Peter Nermander <[email protected]> > To: Scribus User Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [scribus] a billboard > Message-ID: > <CAODejyuGvTMVu=khaqsqxdpnoabbpknzi2q-pa_wujnc8b-...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > Would you like to share a few details on how you got your design from > > Scribus unto the building please? When I zoom in, I see that some canvas > > or tarp-like material is suspended in a frame-structure. > > I have no idea how they did what was shown here, but I do know my dad > used to help this company design their printer (my dad owned a fine > mechanical workshop until he retired a few years ago). If I understand > right, their printer works like an inkjet, but like airbrushes for > nozzles. > > https://www.bigimagesystems.com/ > > So there are companies out there that can print large stuff. But those > printers are not 300 DPI but more like 15 DPI. But you use them as a > normal printer, just open a PDF and print. > > /Peter
On the technical side, the billboards are 680 by 244 inches and 426 by 244 inches. I was asked to prepare files at 1:10 scale, with raster images at 720 dpi. I created a two-page project in Scribus, 68.0 x 24.4 inches and 42.6 x 24.4 inches. I layered forms, images, and text, until the design emerged. The difficulty would be to get the photograph at its required size. I used CaptureOne to treat tif files as raw files, and to gradually scale the image files to the desired specs--20 x40 inches at 700dpi. I hope to be able to do this with Darktable, but I have not tried. I did not know the specifics of the printer, but I suspected it would be something like a Roland LEJ-640. So, I output a pdf 1.3 with cmyk colors, crop marks, and 3-inch bleeds; it was a 2GB file. Scribus performed beautifully. Here are more images, http://dig.thenextfewhours.com/blog/?p=8677 Thanks, Adler ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
