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Originally Posted by MrBasse
If you make your document 2000dpi most large format printers (like a school would have) won't be able to print that, my classroom labs large format printer can print up to 1000dpi, but a file of that resolution will be a huge drain on storage space. The last banner I printed was for the rookie team that we mentored last year and it was 2'x6' @ 200dpi. It took around five minutes to print, but almost twenty for the printer to prepare the document because it was almost a half gigabyte in size. I just did a quick test to see, and a 9'x3' document at 600dpi would be 5.2 GB!
For a banner you will never need to be right next to it to read it. I print ours at 150-200dpi. A safe comparison is billboards, our local company gave a presentation in my class and the typical resolution they print at is between 18-40dpi because the subject is at a minimum of 100' away from the image. The further away your audience is the lower your quality can be.
For any kind of sign making, vector artwork is your friend. Your logo should be vector because you can scale it to any size without losing quality.
I never thought to ask, but why do you want to measure in pixels anyway?
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I want to measure in pixels since i'm using mainly photoshop to make the design and the dimensions for resizing only show in pixels. I mainly made the Logo I used on the banner in illustrator. I'm also very amateur when it comes to graphic design can you please give a simpler explanation? Also do you think I should remake the Banner on Adobe Illustrator for a better result? Sorry if I miss any thing that is common sense haha.