Japanese Shinkansen Posters

[gavino200]

Does anyone know where I can get a Japanese Shinkansen poster like the one featured in the article below. I'd like to get one of these framed for the wall of my train room. I've looked in all the usual places. No luck so far.

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/03/dream-bullet-train-reaches-aomori/

 

 

 

 

 

[cteno4]

Our club has this and a few other E5 and E6 poster that our sister club in iwate sent us about a year ago. One of the members works for a local newspaper so I just assumed he got them thru his media channels, but I'll check.

 

Jeff

[JR 500系]

Another idea is to physically print it out with a good resolution printer, or send the soft copy of the file to printer shops to print out in large paper sizes... However, I do not know about the copyrights of this method though...

[dabsan]

I have that Hayabusa Made In Dream poster and its pretty big, a friend in japan gave it to me. Not sure where you would find one now and its from 2011 which doesn't help much.

[gavino200]

Our club has this and a few other E5 and E6 poster that our sister club in iwate sent us about a year ago. One of the members works for a local newspaper so I just assumed he got them thru his media channels, but I'll check.

 

Jeff

That would be great. Thanks so much.

 

Gavin

[gavino200]

I have that Hayabusa Made In Dream poster and its pretty big, a friend in japan gave it to me. Not sure where you would find one now and its from 2011 which doesn't help much.

 

Yeah, being six years late doesn't help. 

 

If you get sick of looking at yours, I'll gladly take it off your hands.

[gavino200]

Another idea is to physically print it out with a good resolution printer, or send the soft copy of the file to printer shops to print out in large paper sizes... However, I do not know about the copyrights of this method though...

 

Interesting idea. I'd need a pretty high def picture of it though, right? I'd imagine it would be pretty expensive to print out in poster quality too. Am I wrong?

[medusa]

On web printshops, A0 size (about 80x60cm) cost around 30 Euros.

[cteno4]

Vistaprint.com does 36x48 at $30, but if you wait for their sales you can get that down to $15 plus like $6-8 shipping. Local print shops can do them as well usually as most have a large inkjet printer these days.

 

Biggest issues as you said is getting enough resolution to look decent. You can use res up interpolation software to actually do this pretty well (we do this in exhibits a fair amount) but that is expensive software. Some print shops have the software and will let you use it, but may be concerned about the copyrights on the job.

 

The other issue with a poster like this is getting the poster nice and flat, getting it well and evenly lit and taking the picture square on so you don't get any parallax.

 

Jeff

[gavino200]

Vistaprint.com does 36x48 at $30, but if you wait for their sales you can get that down to $15 plus like $6-8 shipping. Local print shops can do them as well usually as most have a large inkjet printer these days.

 

Biggest issues as you said is getting enough resolution to look decent. You can use res up interpolation software to actually do this pretty well (we do this in exhibits a fair amount) but that is expensive software. Some print shops have the software and will let you use it, but may be concerned about the copyrights on the job.

 

The other issue with a poster like this is getting the poster nice and flat, getting it well and evenly lit and taking the picture square on so you don't get any parallax.

 

Jeff

 

Thanks. I might try having a Japanese friend pen a polite letter to JR's marketing department, asking if they have any old posters. 

 

Will post if anything comes up.

[cteno4]

Gavin,

Worth a shot! I asked our president (who lived in Iwate two years where/when/how we formed our sister club relationship) about the posters that they had sent us and he was not sure how they got them, and wasn't keen on bugging them about it. Their president works for a regional newspaper and they also have members who are employees at sanriku rr. Also they may have just general club rr contacts as well. We also got some of our posters thru Japan week a few years back in NYC as jr east and the Japanese travel bureau had a bunch displayed there that they got rid of at the end of the show. Might contact the jntb to see if they have old posters they are getting rid of

 

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/contact/regional_offices.html#newyork

 

Also the Jr lines will do desktop calendars with great photos that can be printed for your own use (they request no public display or business use). Printing some of these as a mini poster or collating 4 into a larger poster might be nice and come out decent if not blown up huge. There are gobs of high res photos out there on the web as well that could be used if for personal use.

 

http://recommend.jr-central.co.jp/others/museum/calendar/index.html

 

Jeff

[gavino200]

Gavin,

Worth a shot! I asked our president (who lived in Iwate two years where/when/how we formed our sister club relationship) about the posters that they had sent us and he was not sure how they got them, and wasn't keen on bugging them about it. Their president works for a regional newspaper and they also have members who are employees at sanriku rr. Also they may have just general club rr contacts as well. We also got some of our posters thru Japan week a few years back in NYC as jr east and the Japanese travel bureau had a bunch displayed there that they got rid of at the end of the show. Might contact the jntb to see if they have old posters they are getting rid of

 

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/contact/regional_offices.html#newyork

 

Also the Jr lines will do desktop calendars with great photos that can be printed for your own use (they request no public display or business use). Printing some of these as a mini poster or collating 4 into a larger poster might be nice and come out decent if not blown up huge. There are gobs of high res photos out there on the web as well that could be used if for personal use.

 

http://recommend.jr-central.co.jp/others/museum/calendar/index.html

 

Jeff

 

Thanks. I appreciate you asking about it.

 

The calendar is nice. But I really like the glitzy 'train porn' look of the "Made in Dream" poster. I might look and see if I can find previous issues of the digital calendar.

[gavino200]

Something like this would be nice too.

 

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-2012462

 

I might be able to pick up something suitable when we visit SCMaglev in March. 

[gavino200]

I also like this picture as a contrast to the glossy one. (Red train in green fields at the bottom)

 

http://mag.eki-net.biz/shopping/traincalendar2017.html

 

We redid the whole basement with heated tiles and fresh paint, before we set up the layout. There's nothing in it except for the trains and a couple of stools. We can basically design the whole room around the layout.

Edited January 8, 2017 by gavino200

[cteno4]

Calendars are a great way to get larger sized pre printed pictures! Especially if you can catch them on sale if February! Craft stores are always having big sales on frames, just frame them up nicely and come up with s design of a lot of smaller images maybe! Scoring Shinkansen posters from Japan may be a large challenge. Ours were also shipped folded unfortunately and it turned out that they had come this way not doen just for cheaper shipping... So not as great with the folds in them...

 

Many higher res digital pictures you may be able to find could print at 11x17 w.o a lot of fiddling if they are sharp.

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

[gavino200]

Calendars are a great way to get larger sized pre printed pictures! Especially if you can catch them on sale if February! Craft stores are always having big sales on frames, just frame them up nicely and come up with s design of a lot of smaller images maybe! Scoring Shinkansen posters from Japan may be a large challenge. Ours were also shipped folded unfortunately and it turned out that they had come this way not doen just for cheaper shipping... So not as great with the folds in them...

 

Many higher res digital pictures you may be able to find could print at 11x17 w.o a lot of fiddling if they are sharp.

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

 

Thanks for the ideas. When I find something that works I'll post it.