1.8GB TIFF files are no fun to deal with, in any way, shape or form

[jmowreader]

It is a 150dpi TIFF, 268" long x 110" high, and in CIElab colorspace.

It's half of a wall. The other half is a reflected version of this.

I'm working it on a Power Mac G5.

[Deja Q]

1. And I thought 80Gb TIFs were bad enough

:wow:

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Holy fuck.

[jmowreader]

3. I have files that make bigger prints...

We've got a client who wraps his construction equipment--and yes, it gets the shit torn out of it. So he buys the wrap in rolls and patches it every time the vehicles come in for maintenance.

I print his wrap in 52" x 52-foot strips--whole rolls of it at one whack. There is, for my money, no more boring of a job than watching full-width strips of solid blue come out of a printer.

We also have a customer who wraps the 33-foot fishing boats he makes. That's a nice design, and it's 36 feet long.

The strange thing is, even though the massive file in the OP is huge beyond the ability of modern man to describe it, it doesn't PRINT huge. I split it into 4-foot squares for printing, with a strip at the top for around the eaves and a strip at the bottom to go around the foundation.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. He gets a 52"x52' roll of blue printed paper (or is it vinyl?)?

Why doesn't he just buy a giant roll of blue paper (or vinyl)? Or, since it's for construction equipment outside, use cloth?

[jmowreader]

5. It's vinyl

It's also his special patented (no shit--he's got a PATENT on this color) construction company blue. No one but me makes this color.

Actually, he gets a 164-foot roll of this stuff--that's the length of a roll of my vinyl.