Printing large files on 14x17 paper

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my problem is a little different, and please someone help me with this. for an example I have a image that is 46320x9003. but I want to print without cropping it on a 17x47 paper. is this even possible?

carl434 said:

my problem is a little different, and please someone help me with this. for an example I have a image that is 46320x9003. but I want to print without cropping it on a 17x47 paper. is this even possible?

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The aspect ratios are not the same. So you'll have white borders left over on two sides.

carl434 said:

is this even possible?

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Why wouldn't it be?

Also, welcome to Photrio!
I'll split your question off into a dedicated thread so you maybe get some more responses.

Just to fill in a few blanks...

Your image is about 5 times wider than it is high (46320/9003 = 5.14).
Your paper is 2.75 time wider than it is high (47/17 = 2.76)

Since these ratios do not match you cannot print the image without cropping AND fill the entire sheet of paper.

Assuming that you will print it at 300 pixels per inch, your file would print 154" x 30" (46320/300 = 154 and 9003/300 = 30). (We could use a slightly different conversion factor here, with minor changes in the end result, but 300 pixels per inch is a nice round number and quite typical!)

Thus to fit the image on your paper it will need to be scaled down by a factor of 0.3 (47/154 = 0.3). Thus the height of the image will be 9" (30 x 0.3 = 9) when printed to fit the 47" wide paper.

In other words, you will have 8"(17-9 = 8) of blank paper "left over"; 4" top and bottom if you center the image on the paper.

Downsizing generally don't hurt the image quality. And many printers print at much higher resolution than 300 dpi.

Aspect ratio is aspect ratio. Either you like and keep the original, leaving white or trimming it off, or you crop the image. It's not that hard to figure out.

Welcome to Photrio.
There is one other option, but the result will look really, really distorted and weird.
You can resize an image in a way that has a different impact on one direction than another - you digitally change the aspect ratio. But you rarely will want to.

So if you start out with something like this:

You can then resize it so it looks like this:


The top one is a reasonably accurate version of how that area looks in real life.
The bottom one isn't!
This works better if the change is slight and almost unnoticeable.
You probably don't want to do this if there are people in the frame!