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Help! digi vinyl from picture
Hello all – baby is keeping me very busy but desperate to go back to work! start back mid august but picked up a little job to tide me over, I am fitting a merc van for a kitchen fitter and they have given me a brochure with a couple of pictures of kitchens that they want on the panels. I thought that it was as simple as contacting my usual trade printer who would just wack the designs onto vinyl, scanned from the brochure BUT NO CIGAR! Can anyone tell me how to go about this, a printer to use etc etc. Much obliged! nelijane
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I think it depends on the size of picture you scan & want it blown up to nelijane.
Quality is always a factor when scanning to print.Im just popping off for a bit,
What ide advise though is if it’s from a magazine, get a nice gloss picture at a decent size. Scan it in at a good resolution.Trade suppliers? Well most will print what you give, but will also advise you on what will be good quality when blown up and what will be bad.
If you are getting trade prints done, make sure the resolution is good if the images aren’t that big… some trade suppliers have huge machines and charge very little but the resolution is bad for small prints. e.g. 24inch square or metre square one van.No coffee mug rings or creases on the page…:wink: 😆
raccoon digital give a good service.. and many options on machines used etc
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You can use this formula
Output size / input size x 75 = dpi you scan at.
(output/input on the longest side)
IE if you want a 3’x 2′ pic from a 6″x4″ pic , then its
36″/6″ x75 = 450dpi.
It’s adviasble to scan at about 1.5 x that DPI if you can , however its oftne academic as the print you are scanning has to be better than that to get great output.
If the print is really “grainy” (IE what you scanned is a dotty type print) then use Corel or whatever and apply a slight amount of gaussian blur to smooth it)
Scan in RGB mode. -
cheers lads! I wasn’t going to scan the image myself but I’m going to give it a shot now and then contact racoon. nelijane
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