Ultra-wide panoramas

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Someone has asked to buy one of my photos, which is an ultra-wide panorama of Coniston. It measures 15068 x 3293 pixels.

I'd set the website up fairly generically, with options to buy prints on standard paper sizes, but I hadn't really considered how to deal with non-standard images like this one. Any ideas or recommendations of anyone who can print ultra-wide panoramas (or panoramas and non-standard prints in general) and how large the image could be printed? I guess height is the limiting factor, rather than width?
 
Several years ago, not long after I got my first DSLR, I made a panorama of a 180° view of the frontage of Blenheim Palace. It was very very wide relative to its height. At the time I worked for an engineering consultancy and one day I decided to stay late and borrow one of their big roll printers - used for circuit diagrams, schematics, blueprints etc - to print my panorama. I thought printing it a metre or so wide would look great.

Unfortunately I didn't really understand the print driver software and there was some confusion over which was the x axis and which the y. And I couldn't work out how to cancel the print once it had started and I'd realised my error. The upshot was that I ended up staying very late and going home with a rolled up print measuring approximately 8m x 1m.

So anyway, if you use something like an Epson 9900, you'll be able to make a print which measures approximately 5.1m x 1.1m. I guess the real question is how big your client wants it.
 
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snapalot said:
we print panoramas every so often on our 44" printer but never 5m long!
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You could though, I'm sure.

Much more of an issue is where the OP's client would want to hang something that large.
 
Yes I know we could print it Stewart just never been asked to.
The problem like you say is hanging it though with lots of moulding I suppose not impossible and a 5 metre lump of glass, errrrr no thanks.
We don't do many over 48" as our standard backing board and glass is that size unless we order bigger which is a PTIA to handle in our workshop.
 
So at 300dpi, that's 50x11".

Theprintspace will do a 60x20" (your image would be 60x13.2") for £59 c-type / £77. They'd go up to a 180x60" but at £700 I'm guessing that'd not be good for the buyer...
Loxley will do 60x20" for £34 c-type / £72 giclee.

I suspect if you phone up your favourite photo lab they'll be able to quote for a non-standard ratio.
 
My longest print was 7m x 0.9m, we regularly print family trees around 2m x 1m they look great framed up.
 
You could try SupersizePrint.

I've had a couple of photos printed and I like them. Might be worth a shot. You can also input your own photo dimensions.
 
Thanks all. Between my holiday and the client's holiday, we haven't gone any further with it, but they've decided on cropping down to a 40" x 10" which is fairly manageable. The request has opened up a whole can or worms about the model I am / was using for hosting and fulfilling any orders though. It was always going to happen as soon as someone wanted to buy something, but I guess I was working on the basis that if I didn't market myself, nobody would buy anything! :p Then I went and spoiled it all by inviting people to my facebook page. That'll teach me...! I can't complain too much - It's a nice problem to have really!
 
I work in the print industry, and several press manufacturers I know of print their press mech drawings out 1:1 and stick it to the wall behind where they build the press. These machines are often 2m high and 20+m long. Admittedly, they do it in sections!
 
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