Playing around with my printer...

[Newc]

So about a year or 2 ago (can't recall), I scored an HP Designjet90 off Ebay to help my brother do some of his posters. That hasn't materialized, so rather than let it sit there like a $450 lump, I decided to try something.

I dug through some old Guitar World magazines and ran across a Rhoads tribute from March of 2006 that still had the poster in it (I have a footlocker full of GW and GFTPM posters, but the locker's inaccessible at the moment).

Anyhoo, I put the poster on my scanner to see if I could print it out bigger (the printer can do up to 18" wide and 150' length). So I scanned the poster but the fold in the middle pretty much ruined it. The image was too large to CloneBrush the fold mark out, but I found the same image in another section of the book that took up the whole page, so I scanned that one instead.

Lemme know how it turned out:



The one on the left is the one I scanned and reprinted. The one on the right is the original poster. The page I scanned was less than half the size of the original poster.

The white spot is camera flash.

[Wylde06]

i think it looks pretty good...almost cant tell you scanned and reprinted it

[Spivonious]

It looks pretty good from here. Maybe a little pixelated from the blowing up, but not much. And of course the colors are different, but that's obvious.

[Newc]

It is slightly pixelated because of the grain in the original image. I coulda got it clearer had I scanned the poster and taken the time to clean up the crease mark in post, then printed it. Then again, one should expect some pixelation when scanning a 4-color offset printed image.

Maybe I need to track down the folks who've scanned all those centerfolds years ago that have been on the internet forever, if I can remember their names