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Roland sp-300 resolution help…
Hi everyone. Hoping to get some help from experienced guys and gals in the industry. Before I get to the question I’d like to give a little background info so you can get a good feel on my situation.
I’m a 29 y/o male and live in Myrtle Beach, SC. Yes, I’m a Yankee. Hope I don’t offend anyone. I have a wife and 3 kids. I’m in a technical college for a digital arts major. I came across an ad for a guy who buys business’ then basically pays people to run them. He just bought out a vinyl sign company and wanted someone to run it.
It’s a great opportunity with profit sharing and the like and the base pay is great too. Problem is, I fibbed a little to get the job and I’m in a little over my head. He loves my designs, but I’m really lagging in the printing and cutting aspect. My first job was to put letters on the sides and back of his box van. It was trial by fire but I got it done and he was pleased. Now we are making some bumper stickers and I have to figure out printing.
Cutting out vinyls letters and installation I’m OK on for now, but here’s my newest problem and I can’t for the life of me figure it out.
I make a great design in photoshop for a bumpersticker. I know PS isn”t too good because it’s not vector, but since it’s for a one size job (i.e bumper stickers) i figure it should be no problem. I make the document CMYK and put the resolution at 720dpi.
I’m using the roland SP-300 with ColorRip software. The problem is I don’t know how to upload the PS document into ColorRip. I import it into coreldraw, create the outline, then send it to ColorRip.
WHEN I PRINT IT it looks like crap!! I can see tiny little dots when I get up close to the final product. Far away they look nice.
My question is this. Is the Roland SP-300 capable of printing better resolution than this? Or is this the best I get out of it? I’ve auto- and manually cleaned the heads, I’ve recalibrated it for bi-lateral printing, I just don’t know what to do next.
I hope you guys can help me out because I really have to have this job. Wife and three kids are tough to support working at McDonalds!!!
Thanks in Advance!!!
Ok. Mods I believe this is in the wrong forum. Can you please move it to the ‘printing’ section?
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What is possibly happening is that when you export into Corel the image resolution is being reduced ? either that or when you export from Corel it is being reduced there.
In any case, somewhere along the line the image resolution is being reduced by some of the software you are using, so check the import and export settings on all the progs that you use.
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cant you just design it in corel instead?
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Tom,
If it’s designed in photoshop export the file as a Tiff file. If it’s crap as CMYK export as RGB. Corel’s ok for printing but PS is better.
The resolution set at 720 dpi is too high. Try 150. You’ll soon end up with your hard drive busting a gut if all your files are 720. -
Thanks Karl. I’ll give it a shot. I’ll let you know how it turns out
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