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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · print size, paper size, frame size - What?? | |
I acknowledge that my last formal encounter with geometry was in the previous century, but still I thought I understood basic 2 dimensional space fairly well. Seems that I don't.
Recently I've had an upsurge in people wanting my pix printed large. A very good thing from my perspective. I'm running a Epson 3880 so my max size is in the 19x30 range. One complication is that most people want the picture framed. Now I live in what is labeled as an "economically disadvantaged" area. In plain English it means the mine closed and the survivors work hard to keep even.
If I were to take my prints to a professional framer there would be the 5 hour round trip, plus the cost would be prohibitive to virtually all my customers. So I've been trying to use inexpensive pre-made frames from places like Michaels (a chain of craft stores for those of you not in the USA) or IKEA, etc.
Frames claim to be sizes like 11" x 14" but will only take an 8x10 pix. Other frames have an open area of 16x20 and other standard sounding dimensions. Bundled backing and glass kits can go up to 18x26. I'm guessing some assumptions are made about matting, but there's no information included with the frames.
So my questions are several.
I print from Lr. (I find Ps much harder to work with.) In a recent attempt to make a full 16x20 print, I set the paper to 17x22 and the cell size in the print module at 16x20. Borders were at the .17 minimum. I've made 3 attempts to get this to print this way, but I'm getting a height that is correct, but the width is only about 13.375". While this is by no means museum quality paper, it's pretty good and I hate wasting it.
The pix is from a FF 1DsIII and has no cropping in PP. Trying a down sized print for 13x19 paper I still end up with a vertical dimension close to what I want but the horizontal is way narrow.
When I work with a paper that is 17x22 or 11x14 or 13x19 what is the expected size that will be printed on each?
So what am I missing here? Aspect ratio? I thought what we label as full frame is in a 3x4 format which would yield a 15x20 print? My narrow dimension is much more than 1/2" off.
I've whacked around in Google some but haven't come up with a systematic discussion of frame size, mat size, print size, etc. If someone's aware of such a resource I'd love to know about it. I'm capable of making frames but have no experience cutting mats and fear I'd go thru a lot of cardboard before I was any good at it.
Anyway, as you can tell, I've got my self all "bolloxed up" as my Ozzy friends would tell me. Anybody who regularly frames or get their pix framed willing to share some tips?
Thx,
Robert
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