How do you export your designs for printing?

[Warren Beard]

Hi Adrian

I used to use EPS but since having a few problems I now use Tiff files and haven’t had any printing problems with it.

cheers

Warren

[Steve McAdie]

I guess it depends on what your printing. EPS is vector as you know so you can scale as much as you want without losing quality unless it contains embedded bitmap, Tiff files are bitmaps so quality depends on resolution of image. I read somewhere once that TIFF files retain the original colour profile better than any other file type. I personally print from EPS normally or Jpg for pictures and sometimes PDF, depends on what I am sent as artwork most of the time. I always send as EPS if I’m printing & cutting the same work.

Steve

[Adrian Yeo]

Thanks for the replies.

Steve, do you export your eps files as CMYK or RGB?

[David Rowland]

I Publish to PDF with my own settings, this has been 99% reliable in the past but now starting to get errors with my rip, so now looking at ‘printing’ to RIP methods.

[Steve McAdie]

I do my artwork as CMYK but if it was too big a file size then I would try it as RGB to make it smaller and let the Rip convert it. I try to convert files as little as possible to retain the original as colours can change.

Steve

[graffica]

Like Dave, I publish to PDF and generally save this to Desktop.
I then import or open the PDF in Photoshop, save it as a JPEG (always RGB unless exact colour is vital) and at a maximum of 150 dpi. In many cases 75 dpi is OK.
I´ve done some 6m x 3m banners recently without any loss of image quality.
I´m self-taught so someone might have a better way.

Chris A.