Printing Tips and Helpful
Guides
Table of Contents
1. How will
my photos and text appear?
2. How is digital
printing different from Press Print?
Contents
1. How will my photos
and text appear?
Working with Photos
If you're scanning photos yourself, save
them as either EPS or TIFF files to get the best colour
& clarity. If you're scanning a printed image
out of a magazine then you'll need to remove the moiré
which actually blurs the image slightly. Always scan
at 300dpi at the size you're going to use the images
at. And remember to convert the images from RGB to
CMYK.
Working with Text
Don't EVER, EVER create text in a bitmap
programme such as Photoshop. Sure, use Photoshop or
Photopaint to produce bitmap images for photos or
backgrounds, but please don't use them for text. Instead,
import your bitmaps into Illustrator or Corel Draw
and overtype the text as vectors so that it's nice
and sharp. Pixilated text looks dreadful. Remember
to always convert your text to curves, paths or outlines
otherwise you might end up with a totally different
font.
2. How is digital
printing different from Press Print?
Digital printing gives you the flexibility
to print what you want, when you want!
Its turnover is much quicker then press.
However with Digital printing, prints do not print
all the way to the edge of the paper resulting in
a thin white margin around it. you're imprint must
be 1/4" from the edge of the bag on all sides.
This is a major improvement over traditional printing
which required the imprint to be 3/4" from the
edge on all sides.
We print all sizes up to A3 digitally on any kind
of stock you require.
