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[broken arm]

if I brought a book into a printshop would they scan and enlarge a page for me? or will copyright get in the way?

for a poster... for my house

 

[HMD]

unless you get a complete cunt I'd say they would

 

[magicbastarder]

is it a picture or a page of text?

 

[broken arm]

is it a picture or a page of text?

picture

 

[magicbastarder]

i'd say some photo shops might balk at the idea.

 

[Pantone247]

I'd say most wouldn't care

more an issue is that colour prints of any type are made of thousands and thousands of tiny dots of colour which the eye blurs together to create the illusion of flat colour (300 dots per inch mostly)

so if you scan something and blow it up, these dots are blown up and can become more obvious.. also because of the wy these dots are distributed, and how a scanner reads them, you can weird patterns and casts across your image...

but like no dude getting through the working day in reads would be arsed about copyright like

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I found a Tiff image online that I want to get printed out decently. Where's the best cheapest place to get it done in town? It would be something like 2 A4s on their side size.

 

[HMD]

you can get an A2 on photographic paper here for €15. the quality is decent

 

[magicbastarder]

I found a Tiff image online that I want to get printed out decently. Where's the best cheapest place to get it done in town? It would be something like 2 A4s on their side size.

how big is the tiff?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

5 mb. Is that too small for a decent print?

The library of congress/american memory website has amazing old photos. There's a cityscape of Cleveland, OH I want to get printed up and framed for my gf's grandad.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Here's the site for anyone interested. A treasure throve of ephemera, old images, etc. It's America-centric although I found a good shot of Dev in there.

 

[magicbastarder]

5 mb. Is that too small for a decent print?

a 5MB compressed grayscale TIFF would be about 8MP - which would be fine that size, but you'll get some pixellation if it's colour. probably not enough to worry you.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

It's sepia. Old pic. I think they look deadly on the comp I just hope they come out daycent printed.

 

[magicbastarder]

i've recently downloaded an apollo moon pic from nasa, to have printed - great thing about them is they make all the pics available for download in high res.

 

[broken arm]

i've recently downloaded an apollo moon pic from nasa, to have printed - great thing about them is they make all the pics available for download in high res.

link?