Thanks Tim - I will certainly keep them in mind. Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Powys-Lybbe Sent: 01 July 2011 17:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [SOG-UK] Printing large family trees with high definition graphics For some years now I have wanted to print large family trees with dimensions greater than those offered (a metre at most in one of the two directions) by the various print firms at the Olympia Show, etc. A firm called Service Graphics have done the business for me and they are to have an Open Day next week. <http://www.servicegraphics.co.uk/sg/news/chessington-open-days> and I have e-mailed them to see if I can come along. They are just north of Chessington World of Adventures, near Kingston-on-Thames, but on the other side of the road. They were able to print on plastic, much stronger than paper, and the clarity of the print and the faithfulness of the colours were of a high order; I was delighted at the result. The secret of this is to convert your family tree to a PDF file as they don't know anything about the files from Genealogy programs. On both Mac and Windows you can always convert your printer output to a PDF file, so that part is easy. You have to specify in your genealogy program that your tree will be on one single vast sheet of paper (plastic); perhaps not all programs will do this and perhaps some demonstration is needed for the various genealogy programs. Before sending them your final PDF file, you must send sample bits to your printer at home to ensure that things and colours look OK when printed at 300+ dots per inch. Not cheap but their price was competitive with other printers. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message