Digital BW, The Print

Matti,

Not to say that Steve Gledhill is wrong - I know he is right, but I believe that what you 
describe is exactly what Stephen Livick is doing.  You'll need to have the patience of a 
saint!  Check it out.

http://www.livick.com/method/inkjet/pg1.htm

Good luck.

Josh



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Gledhill 
<stephengledhill@...> wrote:
>
> I tried it a few months ago with 4 A3+ tiles just to see what my work 
> looked like bigger before I shelled out for a bigger printer.  It's a 
> devil to get such a precise cut that they fit together perfectly.  But 
> even when cut perfectly you can't hide the joins when taped from behind 
> or stuck down on a large sheet.  If you want it to look unjoined - it 
> won't.  So, my suggestion is that your son's idea is right - if you must 
> do it then make a feature of the window panes.
> Steve Gledhill ----- http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/
> 
> Matti Koskinen wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > just wondering if anybody has made big prints by tiling smaller prints?
> >
> > My son had an idea: he took one of my pictures, in elements split the
> > picture to 4 and inverted two of them. I then printed the four
> > bw-pictures in A4 size, and he mounted the prints in cardboard leaving
> > one inch gap between the pictures. The result looks quite nice and 
> > it's big.
> >
> > Tiling super-B size prints makes it possible to create even larger
> > image. How about taping the prints without the gap? Would the seam be
> > too visible? Any tips?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -matti
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