Export Billboards / Hoardings / Signages from Illustrator | Exporting Large Scale Print Files.

Exporting or preparing large-scale print files can easily take up to 2 to 3 GBs if done wrong. Comparatively smaller file sizes can save lots of stressful moments while sharing files with the printer, moreover, it provides more control and higher quality print. The technique you are about to learn in this video can be used to create & export billboards/hoardings/signages from Illustrator while keeping the smallest file size.

This technique is mainly used for printing large-scale billboards, hoardings, signages, and streamers for advertising or promotional purposes.

Tools that you’ll need are Adobe Illustrator or any other vector-based graphic application, Adobe Photoshop & a little bit of mathematics.

Create your file using this simple formula; “final size in feet” = “final size in inches”. For example; 60ft = 60 inches, 45ft = 45 inches & 20ft = 20 inches

Subscribe to my channel for more helpful tutorials and educational content like this one, be sure to hit the notification bell so you never miss an update. Don't forget to leave a comment and let us know what other topics you'd like me to cover.

Thanks for watching!

[daRochelly]

Hi thanks for sharing..so when I send it to the printer at 80dpi...how is that good quality to print when they are always recommending 300dpi? Or is it that I should let the printer know and they can make it 300? Let me know

[paminusmurungi]

Hello, thank you for the video. How could I export the final product as a PDF ready for printing? Say its a banner that is 6 metres by 3 metres.

[ArtFunLife]

what do you normally use RGB or CMYK for billboard printing in Pak? or if designing for USA then which color are prefer. as I heard RGB is also fine there?

[sidraramay]

While increasing small size of illustrator to large size from photoshop, will it not lose quality of the file????

[Angel-nypg]

Could you explain more about the formula? I am using cm / mm and do not how the rules works?

[haidirwasli]

i want to design 18feet x 55 feet in Photoshop . so i need to create canvas for 18inches x 55inches and DPI is 300. finish the design, save it.need to print for large format.. just change that 18inches x 55 inches to 18 feet x 55 feet but DPI change to 80. something like that?

[chuzing]

hi, am I right to say that you reduced your final desire size proportionally in illustrator. Export it to 300dpi and double check quality in photoshop. 
While you create file in illustrator, Will you reduce the raster effect to 150PPI? Thks!

[jameelmustafa]

tiff export kareen to line ajati ha printing file ma koi solution batado please