Illustrator or Photoshop for printed poster/advert design?

Still in the planning phase of doing a 4m wide and 2m high poster to hang upon a door.
Can anyone advise about how to go about it? Photoshop and Illustrator are both amazing but which one is more suitable for this particular job? Also, what does the resolution of the document have to be? Does it have to be set in cm or pixels? While Googeling there seemed to be suggestions mainly about the resolution 300dpi.
All sort of advice would be cool!
Kind regards,
laanes

Use Illustrator. Any images would be prep'd in Photoshop. This looks like a large format inkjet print project. Your document's raster effects resolution should be between 144 - 150 ppi; output resolution should be 600dpi ( or 1200dpi for maximum resolution printers ). That reference of 300dpi is wrong and comes from a source that does not know what they are talking about ( but, very common nevertheless ). DPI is an output resolution. PPI is an image resolution. Whoever said 300dpi was actually referring to image resolution of 300ppi ( which, in your case, would be too high for your door poster ). If you were planning to have your door poster commercially reproduced, then an offset press would be a better choice and would require an image resolution of 300ppi; output resolution of 5080dpi. Since your poster would be a gradient and mostly type, Illustrator is the natural choice ( single document ).

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