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Hi peeps.

Well what do you know my current employers have recently installed £15,000 worth of colour laserjet printer/copier with A3 capacity.

I would like to print off a few great posters before I leave the job, god knows it's been hellish - so over to you guys! I want classic ROCK'N'ROLL imagery, ie (for the dim amongst you) COOL STUFF!

jpg/whatever links much appreciated. cheers.

― Christopher Sallis, Esq., Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/kaikaikiknews.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/clissold.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, A3, these arent big enough are they?

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

If Christopher wants to print stuff there's no way these'd take advantage of said printer. Maybe pop up URLs to print-quality images or something? IME, even an A4 or A5 print-quality scan tends to be in the many megs...

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

do u like chan?

http://home.attbi.com/~rogerdeforest/pix/chanback.jpg

la fee verte:

http://www.sepulchritude.com/chapelperilous/absinthe/images/splash2.jpg

beth orton:
http://www.beth-orton.co.uk/BethPics/Plants.jpg
http://www.beth-orton.co.uk/BethPics/Stop.jpg

cool decay pics:
http://www.ruin-japan.com/

get gareth to send you bigger versions:
http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/oldfronts.html

too small maybe:
http://www.onemanseye.com/flash/index.html

― ron (ron), Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Great absinthe poster - cheers.

More weird and wonderfrul ideas please.

― Sir C. Sallis, Del., Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, index puts up high qual photos, but they only have one at a time :( i think it's an m&m kids one now

― ron (ron), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

actually they are not that big :(

― ron (ron), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

jel might have large scans of some of his stuff, also melissa might have a large scan somewhere of her landscape painting

― ron (ron), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

But how do I do it though?!

Seriously, I haven't specialised in digital visual media to any serious extent - so how do I do it?! If I want to save a massive image to a file - how exactly? Do I adjust the settings when I'm printing or do I manipulate the image beforehand in Photoshop?

HELP!

Let me tell you - I am going to do this - I can't wait, I just wish I could make posters for all you crazy ILXORS.

More ideas! More light!

― chris sallis, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That's "Del." as in "utterly deluded" btw :)

― chris sallis, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i think what trayce is getting at is that huge, beautiful scans/ images/whatever are kind of rare on the net because they are relatively ginormous files that take way too long to load and use too much bandwidth. therefore jpg, gif, etc. compression schemes, therefore, crappy output of your phnc33 printer :(

― ron (ron), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

But surely there is a visual equivalent of compressing a gigasample?

― chris sallis, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there a bank of beautiful MASSIVE images, that one can compress using WinRar and if so, where are they to?

― chris sallis, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

but the thing is that you DON't want them compressed, i'd say. the compression is why they won't print nicely. if you have photos you'd like to enlarge, scan them yourself and don't compress them and i'll bet you can blow them up nicely and still have them look ok. i'm not expert at this either, so take what i say with a grain of salt

btw, look at these photos. they are small but many are arty-blurry so might print ok ;-) in any case there are a lot of good photos there

http://www.maganda.org/squint/

― ron (ron), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you have a scanner at work? If you do, utilize that to get bigger images, you can blow up photos at pretty high quality, for example, even with an only "ok" scanner - the "mugshot" picture I floated on the "what do you look like" thread is like the size of a thumbnail, smaller than passport size, but it's decent size on the thread. If you have a scanner, I recommend using your printer to blow up photos you have to frame them or whatever.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth: thanks for the Murakami reminder. Last November I trudged around in the rain in Hyde Park and ran across the giant outdoor sculpture and was blown away by how bright and lively it was on an otherwise really depressing day. Unfortunately, the Serpentine was closed and they were installing the pieces that day. I had to go all the way back the next morning so I was one of the first through the door. The whole exhibit was so overwhelming I don't think I'll ever be able to get the images out of my head, they were that bright.

― kyle, Sunday, 9 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Marsyas @ the Tate (warning: 678k, but will print nicely)

― kyle, Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

heres what i said about that kyle

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artistdrawing.com/Hank%20Williams.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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