Illustrator cs4: Van decal stickers, that's whats needed!

Hi
I'm looking to make some grapics for a van. Sizes need to be quite large around 4ft x 1ft Heigh
Illustrator cs4 is the programme or poss PS cs4
What i need to know is how do i set the page up? After i finished the design i wish to send to digital professional printer I.E van decal printer
Lazarus

Well, it's going to depend on what that printer needs as far as profiles goes to print.  I've seen that vary greatly depending on what printer you are sending it to.
Are you keeping those dimensions when you go to apply it to a van or are you going to have it "cut down" with a cutter afterward?
You did say "graphics", so I'm going to assume that you are going to be doing more then one.  If they are going to be the same graphic, what I would do is start off with the original finished size(4'x1'), after you get that design finished, then I would enlarge the document size(for win. program I think it's File>Document Setup>Edit Artboard) and then change the artboard size to the dimensions of the entire printout.  Let's just say for the purposes of this discussion 20'x10'.  Copy your graphic, arrange the original graphic were you want it, paste and then arrange that graphic were you want it.  Repeat that until all graphics that you are wanting are on the page.
After this you either get it to the printer or you set it up for the cutter.  I don't know if you are going to use a cutter or not, if you are going to use a Roland cutter, then I could help you out with that as I use a Roland cutter.

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