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• • February 19, 2016 at 10:41 am #82117
    Dixie Church

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    I have a high end book with hand drawn illustrations (cartoon type with black lines around objects). This will be published as a book and also each page will be a poster. Book size is 5.5 x 8.5 and the poster size is 24″ x 36″.
    I would like to have only one image. I’m planning on scanning the artwork to 12″ x 18″ at 600 ppi.
    Placement percentage of the image for the book is 45%, making the effective resolution 1333 ppi.
    Placement percentage of the image for the poster is 200%, making the effective resolution 300 ppi.
    My question, since this is a high end book, will the images suffer quality because I’m letting InDesign, (which isn’t a raster image processor), resize the images or should I make sure the original 12×18 is approved, then resize in Photoshop for the book and then again for the Poster.
    I’m looking to see if anyone else has followed this workflow and had success or failure.
    thanks in advance!

  • February 19, 2016 at 11:34 am #82119
    Colleen Shannon

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    Since you’re re-sizing smaller (@45%), the quality will be fine. Why do you want one image? Are they printing together? How many images total?

    Sizing each image in InDesign can slow down processing dramatically. Printers generally prefer those images to be around 100% of the original size. File size is a factor also: your 12×18 can be 300mb; the 5.5×8.5 only 18mb.

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