Long story short, today I printed and framed (A4 size) this view across Lake Wakatipu, from the shore line in Queenstown, NZ. I took the picture in 2012 towards the end of our six week tour of New Zealand.
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this one looks good in a frame
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
Ken, this is a wonder-full image and deserves better than A4-status.
I bet it would look good coming from a 48" printer.
I found such a beast in Collingwood, Ontario, two hours drive north of Toronto and had them print off my 30MB Transilien_Île-de-France_map.jpg I could give a ten-hour lecture on the Transilien to 200 people, if I could fit them in my living-room.
How would you go about locating a 48-inch wide flatbed printer in the UK?
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
Use Google, how else?ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑21 Nov 2020, 20:07How would you go about locating a 48-inch wide flatbed printer in the UK?
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edited to add: that's how I found somewhere when I did this one:
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic. ... 95#p261395
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
Oh. OK.
Ken, I thought that you had printed the magnificent mountain view on only an A4 sheet of paper, 11x8 inches.
That's why I suggested looking for a wide-carriage printer (shop).
My Transilean was printed on its side, so it fed out 48" wide and as long as I wanted it (60" as it turns out).
I had an 1894 map of Toronto done the same way.
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
I did. I could have gone larger, my printer will do A3 (11.7 x 16.5 inches) but the frame I had was an A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) one there was no point going larger. If I ever want giant then I would probably go back to the web-store where I got the giant canvas print of the tree done.ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑22 Nov 2020, 16:12...I thought that you had printed the magnificent mountain view on only an A4 sheet of paper...
The thing about giant prints though is you need giant walls on which to hang them. Our house is not small but neither is it giant.
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
True, Ken, very true.
And only an cottage-bound idiot would buy 1,000 books and then build more wall-to-wall bookcases to house the books, right?
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
I feel your pain. One wall of our living room is bookshelves from about chest height to ceiling. We need more shelf space but we can't extended down to the floor, there's other stuff, notably the hifi and all the CDs and LPs (remember them? big 12" discs of vinyl), in the way. If we removed the bookshelves there would room for a couple of big prints but then there would be the problem of where to put the books.
Perhaps we need a bigger house?
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
Ken,
What didn't you understand about "I have built more wall-to-wall bookshelves"?
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
I understood that you've got wall space available to cover with bookshelves. Sadly I don't.
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
"... the problem of where to put the books"
Right!
Now just join the dots !
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
Sooooo.... Baring bookcases, where do people "store" their books? Here's a starter....
37 cm pile by the television, on the stairs, under the stairs, pile ofbooks in the kitchen, bedside table. I even have a few in the bathroom and toilet!
37 cm pile by the television, on the stairs, under the stairs, pile ofbooks in the kitchen, bedside table. I even have a few in the bathroom and toilet!
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
Very dramatic image Ken.
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Re: this one looks good in a frame
We have thousands of books on shelves in the loft, but those and many more in ebook form in several Calibre libraries (my Android tablet that I read on currently has about 180 books on it...)
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