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Old 07-09-2007, 11:10 AM
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Billboard Sizes

I found a good thread on adobe's site: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc42f71

The best suggestions there being to use 1/12th scale, eg 1 inch = 1 foot. There is no way you are going to design and output a 150dpi image at 14' x 60'. Nor are you going to have better success at 70 or 50dpi. You need to give them a scaled version. So You'll make a 14" x 60" layout @ 300dpi and the printer will increase the size accordingly. Noone should get close enough to the billboard to tell that it's pixelated.
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