Banner Size

[Joe.Morgan]

Ok I am at work at the moment feeling like **** after a heavy night and not knowing who I've left behind in my bed! i need to make a banner for one of our clients, its going to be 14x9 ft so i need to make sure i design it big enough so they don't have to enlarge it and lose quality. Now obviously i cant make the photoshop file 14x9ft in size so how do i go about making it a high enough resolution so that they dont have to enlarge it? I know inkjets print at 720dpi which means making the design in 240ppi but i'm not sure how they print banners and what size and ppi i should the document they will use to print the banner

advice needed!

thanks

Joe

[Toon]

Make it vector in Illy.

[Joe.Morgan]

i dunno if its because im still drunk but that make nooooo sense to me

[Toon]

A vector image created in Illustrator can be scaled to whatever size.

[Joe.Morgan]

i dont have illustrator at work :( how do eps's work in photoshop? ive often opened up eps files and selected the size and ppi i want them and it opens that size and sharp quality no matter how big i make it?

[Toon]

If you're talking 14ft the resolution is going to be pretty big plus the file size I'd ask the people you're supplying to the spec they require.

[Joe.Morgan]

good shout, so no way in photoshop of making a file the same way you make a vector in illy?

[Toon]

Nope I don't think so.

[Kelly Creative]

I don't know why more people don't use illustrator I think once you learn to work vector is opens more doors to creativity.

[sarah]

Do you have Indesign or Quark at work? I had four 800mm x 2500mm banners to do earlier this week, and indesign handled them nicely.