Setting print size to A3 or bigger using Lightroom 5 for printing at a print shop

Hi everyone. I have just bought and installed Lightroom 5 and need to set my print size to A3 and in the future even bigger. I do not have the facility at home and need to have them sized correctly for the print shop so they do not have to waste time resizing them. I am at a loss how to do this. I cant find any settings for this size print. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Carmella. A3 is roughly 42 x 29.7 cm.

You can usually set custom paper sizes in the print driver but simplest is just to let Lightroom do it. Go to the print panel and in Print Job select JPEG file. Set your file resolution to (typically) 300 ppi, quality, anything above 90 is good (100 is overkill). Then turn on custom file dimensions and set the size to whatever you want. Make sure you set the output sharpening to the correct medium type and level and that you select the correct color profile for your printshop. This will give you very high quality prints.

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