: Illustrator - Large Vector File to Print at A0 I have created large vector drawings for A0 printing - each file has thousands of vectors at different transparencies. The largest file is 270mb

@Turnbaugh909

Open the .pdf in Photoshop, ensuring the dimensions are correct and you've set the PPI field to at least 300 in the open dialog:



Let Photoshop rasterize the entire thing. Then save the file as a tiff.

Print the Tiff.

Vector graphics are beneficial when artwork is scaled and manipulated. When it comes to printing everything is rasterized upon output. Even printing directly from Illustrator prints a raster image of the .ai file.

The reason this method may work where printing from .ai is failing is because you are letting Photoshop preprocess the vector data and rasterize prior to hitting the print driver. This way Illustrator or, more importantly, the print driver isn't being asked to rasterize the data.

There will be utterly no difference in the quality of prints if the artwork is the same size - whether it's vector based or raster based.

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@Cofer715

In AI, go to File > Save As and select PDF from the document type. When the options for the PDF appear, go to the Compression section and in the following boxes, change all of the downsamplings to "Do Not Downsample" and compressions to "None"

Print your PDF

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