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my first digital design
I have produced a design for the side panels and rear glass on a berlingo van
The design uses a blended pink background over which is chrome lettering etc produced using filtersMy question is how can I ensure that the printed result looks as planned and does not end up a mass if dots
I will not be printing myself but will need to supply the artwork ready to run
Do I just produce a big enough jpg to fit in the panels
Im treading new ground here so please make it simple
cheers
terry -
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Depends on the format and the machine its being printed on , vector format should always print perfectly unless the machine messes it up.
Raster output for far viewing needs to be sent at about 75 pixels per inch of printed output. IE if you are printing 20″ x 30″ , you need to send a 1500 x 2250 pixel file for it to print really well. The DPI is totally irrelevant , it’s the size that counts.
Be careful of colorspaces , your screen is an RGB device and the printer is a CMYK and the colors you see on an uncalibrated screen will differ markedly from what you see in print. If you are using Corel , use color management to emulate professional CMYK output to see what you will get (more or less)
Be careful of Vector based fades too , some printers and RIPS dont handle them well and you can get a pronounced banding effect in the fade. Ask your printer how his machine handles them, sometimes its better to convert a vector fade (like a corel radial fill etc) into a bitmap.
Be aware again that bitmaps can get reproduced very dull if you send a RGB bitmap and the printer converts it to CMYK , ask the printer whether he wants bitmaps sent as CMYK or RGB.
CMYK cannot reproduce the brightness and color gamut etc you see on screen. -
rodney interesting whot you say about rgb output you are saying the oposite to whot i find with colourrip if i send a image bit map as cmyk its seems to print flat compared but vector fade as rgb are almost a mess perhaps we convert our images at a different time in the work flow just a observation not a critisum.
chris
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