Can I print an AI render on a presentation board?

Standard output is sized for screens, client emails and small print. Put that file on an A1 board at arm length and it will look soft in exactly the places people look first — window reveals, material joints, foreground detail.

The 4K upscale exists for this. It reconstructs detail rather than simply stretching pixels, which is the difference between an upscaled image that holds up in print and one that looks smeared. It costs 30 credits and takes longer than a standard render because it is doing considerably more work.

How much resolution you actually need depends on viewing distance more than on any universal rule. A board seen from a metre or more is honest at 150 DPI; something held in the hand wants 300. A1 at 150 DPI is roughly 3,500 by 5,000 pixels, which a 4K upscale comfortably covers. The print size calculator does this arithmetic for you.

One thing to check before exporting a very large file: many large-format printers output at 150 DPI regardless of what you send them, so a 400 MB file often buys you nothing over a well-upscaled one.