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"So, me," says I to myself, "let's have a little fun."
"What does I have in mind?" replies me.
"Let's make a really small image, and then scan it at the highest possible resolution." I explains.
"Well, what'll that achieve?" I finds myself asking.

Before going any further into a proper explanation written in a somewhat more serious manner, special acknowledgement should be given to *tinkwig for introducing me to canvas paper.

When I was uploading TECHNOMEGA, I wondered what the maximum print size would turn out to be since it was nearly 9 x 12, at least twice as big as any other collage or painting I'd made. I was a little disappointed that the max was something like 18 x 24 and that 30 x 40 would require a higher resolution scan. So, I re-scanned it in 350dpi instead of my usual 300dpi.
In digital photography, most people will tell you that the best way to determine how good your images will look in print, you should take each dimension of your photo in pixels and divide each by 300. This will give you, in inches, the maximum size at which you can print your photo and have it be indistinguishable from film.
Obviously, this is a tad subjective and there are ways around the mathematics so you can have a larger print from a lower resolution that looks just as good, namely turning your photo black and white. Also, I learned this back when 5 megapixels was considered "high end" so most of you probably don't have to worry about this if the largest print you've ever made from one of your photos is 8x10.
Still, it seemed a fun little experiment to see what resolution DevART's prints work with. Think of it as a kind of macro photography exercise with illustration. When Art Spiegelman created Maus, he used typing paper instead of illustration board because he wanted to "amplify mistakes" by enlarging, rather than the usual business of hiding mistakes by reducing. Here's the full interview: [link]
The canvas paper turned out to be a bit of a pain, but only when I tried to round off the corners. This is tough stuff, and my rounder is really only meant for cardstock or watercolor board. I ended up turning the card over and trying to cut from the other side, and even then I basically gave up and used scissors to cut what the rounder couldn't.

Twitpic images: [link] [link] [link]

The original is about 2.5x3.5 (a little more because of the matting), and the largest print available for it is 30x40.

I'm an idiot I just found out this is not actually "canvas board" but "acrylic." in my defense, the pack of cards I got this in was a sort of sample pack, and the only way to tell some of the damn things apart was that there was only one card of acrylic board and two of canvas board. The others were easy to figure out, except for the bristol; there's vellum and there's smooth, and I can't tell one from the other.
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