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Send artwork from signlab
Ok i have designed a banner and i am looking at getting it printed. How can i get it from signlab to a printers without losing resolution?
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Publish to pdf. 😀
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or an eps
if you publish to pdf make sure you tick the lagest file size option though. other wise you will loose the resolutionPeter
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you can actually save as eps in signlab?
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no, but you can export, which in effect is the same thing,
many formats are available as export options,
what version of signlab are you using?Peter
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signlab 8.0 so if i design something say 7mx3m and export as an eps will colours and resolution stay the same?
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If it’s vector drawn – there are no resolution issues to worry about. Saving as an eps may cause some issues. e.g colours may differ with different interpreters, and in some cases the vector paths may be corrupted by different interpreters.
Hence my original suggestion to publish to pdf.
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quote Matthew Greer:signlab 8.0 so if i design something say 7mx3m and export as an eps will colours and resolution stay the same?
resolution should not be an issue with a signlab design, as its vector based.
any images or bitmaps will export as they were created or placed in signlab in eps formatPeter
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quote Matthew Greer:signlab 8.0 so if i design something say 7mx3m and export as an eps will colours and resolution stay the same?Is there a section on exporting file formats (EPS / PDF etc) in the manual?
Dave
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Guys
You are both right, but the real simplest solution is to send it to a printer who uses both Signlab and a printer and his problem would be solved.The issue of resolution is only for bitmap images (photographic), The best way to think of this is imagine you are printing on a balloon and after you have printed it, you blow it up. Vector images do not have a resolution they are exactly that, they are a vector or line art, in that they are just filled lines.
Colour management is like Chinese whisper it depends on the software you use to create the file. The filter you use to save it (EPS or PDF) and then the software you use to produce the file. Because they all have their own colour management. And this is why you may get different colour from different software. And it depends where you set your colour space or starting point as to where you colours will come out.
So if you use the Roland Versaworks pallet to colour your artwork you will get the colours you expect. If colour is important for this particular file ask your printer to do a swatch of the colours that are in the file so you can check before going to print.
Fraser
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quote David Rogers:quote Matthew Greer:signlab 8.0 so if i design something say 7mx3m and export as an eps will colours and resolution stay the same?
Is there a section on exporting file formats (EPS / PDF etc) in the manual?
Dave
There are two ways you can do this and it is pretty straght forward.
File>export, then select the file type in the drop down menu or filter bar, where it says "save as file type". The 2nd is File>publish to PDF. Click export and this will take into the pdf writer with all of the option you have to lock the printing and so on in there. If you want to see what it is going to look like you can select the colour proofing tik box at the bottom. But note this onlyu works if you actially have a printer, set up eg Vesacamm of Mimaki and so on.
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If you have SL vinyl only you will have no colour management which means printed colours maybe totally different from those on screen. If you have print and cut – colour management is included.
If you do NOT have print and cut exporting to Corel or Illustrator which does have colour management maybe a solution in as much you will have a more accurate display of the colours that will actually print. Once you are satisfied colours are ok export from there as eps/pdf. A trade house I use for some banner work prefers actual size jpg at 150dpi
Alan D
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