"Photo Print on Fleece" Topic

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Saber6	03 Dec 2020 10:46 a.m. PST
I've heard folks have created matts by having a Photo or PDF printed to Fleece (WalMart? ShutterFly?) Who has done this and how were the results and costs?
Wackmole9	03 Dec 2020 10:55 a.m. PST
Hi I did two Rommel square fleece for $89 USD with walmart. Color was good and works great for the games.
IronDuke596	03 Dec 2020 11:17 a.m. PST
What size and color is the fleece? Thanks.
Extra Crispy	03 Dec 2020 11:34 a.m. PST
You can get fleece in a variety of sizes. Color is whatever your image is. The base is white. A 50x60" fleece is on sale right now for $30 USD
Lucius	03 Dec 2020 12:31 p.m. PST
I did a Walmart print of a map of Antietam. Color was perfect, details were a little fuzzy. If I had a higher resolution print, it would have been fine.
Saber6	03 Dec 2020 12:50 p.m. PST
Thanks EC, what I was looking for. What Formats (PDF, JPG, GIF) were supported?
Extra Crispy	04 Dec 2020 8:52 a.m. PST
JPG or PNG Biggest issue is getting an image that will blow up and not pixellate.
Hollywood	04 Dec 2020 2:49 p.m. PST
link
etotheipi	04 Dec 2020 2:50 p.m. PST
PNG will give you a "true" reproduction. JPG compresses by approximating patterns in the series of pixel colours, and saving the coefficients for the patterns. When a JPG is displayed, it is actually reconstructed from the pattern coefficients, not just replicated from a series of pixels. They are different. The differences are unlikely to be detectable by human beings, even after hundreds of series of encodings and decodings (note: you don't re-encode a JPG just by opening and closing it). The differences in ink colour and screen colours are probably way more significant.