| How great would it be to have your own pictures | | | | as the file size can handle. If you shot your digital |
| blown up and on display for everyone to see in your | | | | image with 6 or more megapixels, you will probably |
| home, office, or classroom? With how greatly popular | | | | be OK in the larger sizes. There are common poster |
| digital photography has become, so has the demand | | | | sizes that will be offered by all printers. These are |
| to produce great color prints, enlargements, and | | | | usually the sizes that you can find on frames. If you |
| posters. It is now easy and affordable to send your | | | | are planning on framing your new poster, I would |
| color pictures to an online printers and have them | | | | suggest that you buy the frame first and get an |
| reproduced as a glossy poster print and mailed to | | | | accurate measurement and order your poster |
| you within days. | | | | accordingly. See printers for available sizes. |
| Print quality. | | | | Price. |
| Before you upload your images to a printer, be sure | | | | As you would imagine, the bigger the print, the bigger |
| that they are a high enough resolution to be enlarged. | | | | the bill. You should be able to produce a poster print |
| At 100% size (ex. 24x36 inches) you will need at | | | | from anywhere from $9.099 for a 15 x 20 to $50.00 |
| least 100 dpi (dots per inch). Ideally, printers like 300 | | | | for as large as a 36x48 inch poster. However, having |
| dpi for all images. The larger you blow it up, the | | | | a custom poster to show off your family vacation at |
| lower the resolution will be. Many poster printers will | | | | the Grand Canyon is priceless! |
| tell you if your image is too small and will often | | | | Delivery. |
| provide you with a screen shot of how it will look. I | | | | Be sure to check the delivery charge before you get |
| would not recommend blowing up a camera phone | | | | too far. Because posters will be rolled up into a tube, |
| image to the biggest poster size you can find. | | | | they will be slightly more expensive to ship than |
| Size. | | | | simply an order of 4x6 prints. |
| Again, you can only blow up your poster to be as big | | | | |