Argentinean Printer Sets a New Record for Printing the Largest Digital Image
Argentina is not a country known for world records, in fact the only records one can think of associating Argentina is in Football. But in the printing world, Base3, based in Argentina has created a new Guinness World Record for producing the world’s biggest printed digital image.
The printer has printed a 60m X 20m poster depicting Ischigualastao, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is displayed in Buenos Aires..
Robert Ruiz, one of the leading photographers in the country shot the photograph with his 12-megapixel Nikon D2X camera. Ruiz took a master photograph of the site and another 119 photographs depicting the finer details, and they were digitally recomposed into a single image.
Base3 were employed to print the photograph. The printing company leveraged upon its HP Scitex XL1500 super-wide digital printer to produce a record breaking digital print. The HP printer is capable of printing on a wide range of flexible media up to 5m wide, in eight different colours.
The printer explains that the photograph was printed in strips measuring 4.8m wide, the maximum width of the perforated mesh. The strips were soldered together until the giant print was in two halves, each measuring 30 x 20m, to create the final 60 x 20m billboard. The HP Scitex inks provide excellent flexibility, which meant that Base3 could fold the giant mesh prints and take them in a pickup truck to the installation site.
The saga doesn’t end here. Ruiz is already working on his next project, producing seven billboards in seven strategic locations around Buenos Aires, each measuring around 7000 sqm.
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Abhinav has been blogging about printing and related technologies on CreativeCloud for several years. He is also a project manager for a large technology company.
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