Fans of classic images now have an amazing website with thousands of high quality posters – making it easy to store and print posters as home decor. We will show you how it works.
Old movie posters have a very special charm: instead of Photoshop and sophisticated 3D models, as is common today, brushes and paint were mostly used then. Extensive hand-painted posters are not only popular among cinema nerds today, but are also ideal for decorating the apartment and giving a smile or two.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has scanned thousands of such movie posters in high quality and published them in a special online archive. You can download the posters for free and print them for private use – but rumming through the collection is a lot of fun. Sometimes funny movie titles and charts are amazing contemporary witnesses to Hollywood.
Download Movie Posters: Here’s How
Go to the website with the movie poster archive and browse the detailed package a bit. All of the above entries can be sorted differently under “Sort”, for example
- According to the fit
- Alphabetical ascent and descent
- Ascending and descending according to the year of release
- Ascending and descending by type
After clicking on one of the posters, you will see the large view and download button, which you can choose between three quality levels: large, extra large and high quality. With the latter, you will get JPG graphics with 600 dpi, which is suitable for printing in large format.
Prepare the movie poster for printing
If you have your own printer, you can usually print up to A4 size. Since such movie posters only come in their own formats like A3 or A2, you have to use one Use the copy store.
The posters in the online archive all have different formats, so you may need to take a few steps before printing them according to the specified formats.
Open the Print dialog for one of the movie posters with “Right Click | Print”. Here you can select the paper size and print quality. Select “Frame to Frame” to prevent the poster from being cut.
Finally, instead of your printer, select a PDF Creator to write a PDF file to. These can be taken to a copy store or printed out by an online service provider.
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