Full size printing brings out dramatic changes - accurate printing takes practice

Material Mount View - digital painting - 2004 - Dan Beck

When I first found a printing company who could do the quality of printing I wanted on fine watercolor paper, this was the piece I chose first to print large.

When I created it, I used a template (e-canvas) I had created which had the maximum pixels I could create with - given the program with which I paint. It was intended to be printed large from its inception.

I chose the piece because of its texture. On the computer I can enlarge a piece and visualize a section at a time at the intended size - but not the whole piece. This particular work looked like it would change dramatically when enlarged.

Despite a number a printing trials, the first piece did not print with correct colors - part of Macintosh to Windows conversion and just the shear trickiness of it.

Many prints later, I am pleased to say, we have printing accurately really dialed in.

See Also

• Material Mount View
  Art Print Options for the above piece
• Pixel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  More than you need to know about pixels - follow the yellow brick links