People pay a lot of money to get their favorite posters printed. It’s a good business because you can barely bargain the price of something that you want desperately to hang in your room. I had this amazing ‘Prince of Persia Wallpaper’, alongside a few photos from the Animal Pak: Bodybuilding Website that I really wanted to get printed.

The problem was that the guy was asking for way too much money. Therefore, I decided to do a little experiment – something that would eventually help me print any number of life sized photos. Here are a couple of neat tricks that you must know about printing stuff without actually going to the professionals:

• Starting right off with the image quality, make sure that it is high resolution. By now, I am assuming that you have it figured out whether you want a colored copy or the black and white version printed.
• The dim photos are going to look ugly. From up close and personal angles, dim posters are going to turn out nothing but a fuzzy mess. If you ask me, you’re going to end up wasting a lot of good ink this way.
• The process starts with enlarging the image and breaking it into different segments.
• There’s a hard way of doing it, and there’s an easy way as well.

We’ll take the easy way. Head over to the official ‘Block Posters’ or the ‘Faster Poster’ website. These guys specialize in segmenting images into separate multi format files. If you prefer PDFs segmentations of your digital image, you’ll definitely get it done there.

Official Block Posters Website Homepage Image – The National

• Alright, once you have the image sliced up nice and big, it is time to print it on A4 pages. You can use pages of various qualities to your liking.

Once you have printed the image, you will end up with a nice stack of pages. It is time to combine these pages with glue, hard work, patience and dedication. The professional method is to get a Chart or Poster paper, the overall size of your printed image.

Carefully, with a paper cutter, trim off the edges/ seams. Spread the glue evenly on the poster paper surface and start sticking your image – page by page. Leave this beautiful mess to dry out for a few hours. I’d strongly advise you to keep the poster paper straightened out, by putting some kind of weight at its corners. You don’t want this entire thing to curl up after drying.

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