Picture Pixel Size for Printing onto A1 Canvas

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Hi Guys

We're looking at doing a wedding tableplan and having it printed onto a canvas. I found a website which suggested that for printing in A1 a picture should be around 9000x7000 pixels.

I created a new file in Photoshop in the above size however it seems to be a lot bigger than I need. To get a font that even looks slightly readable it needed to be size 72! And the images we want to use are Parisian Art Champagne Posters such as
http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/vintage/taittinger/img1poster4.jpg

And they just seem to be very small and then when enlarged become very poor quality.

I’ve spoken to a couple of printers who say they print in 72DPI. Therefore what size should I create my initial image?

We obviously want the quality to be decent enough so that the images look quite good and the font is readable. I’m not very good with photoshop at the moment and find that I keep making quite a lot of mistakes (especially when trying to merge 2 images) but at least I’m getting there slowly
 
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