Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.
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“Change this design to a quarter page, from a half” - page layout reduction but keep content
Hopefully won't be too vague a question or specific, but understand that it might be.
I rarely touch design work, but my employer has asked me to take an A4 page advert (PDF) for a client and ...
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What are the best widely-distibuted typefaces when I don't have access to commercial alternatives?
I frequently find myself producing printed material without the luxury of using commercial typefaces.
What typefaces typically installed with operating systems or software applications are good ...
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Design solutions/ideas/examples/sugestions for good looking cropped images in a product booklet
I am doing this booklet for some chairs and I have a problem.
The problem is that I have small images, but the booklet is intended for A4 print.
I will post 2 images to explain my problem.
What I ...
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What are examples of creative uses of restaurant print design paraphernalia?
I was recently asked to design all the print design paraphernalia for a tapas restaurant of a great friend of mine. That would include a menu listing all the tapas and wines, a glass pad, a place mat, ...
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Should in-house clients receive native files to make their own changes?
I am the in-house designer for a company that employs 8 marketing managers. These marketing managers are the ones that supply me with the lion-share of my projects.
However, more and more, the ...
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What size should I make my gatefold brochure?
I am a web developer who now needs to create a brochure, so excuse me if fumble some terms.
It is a gatefold brochure and the requirement is that the central piece is as close to square as possible. ...
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Is there a standard “magazine” size for printing?
I'm thinking of printing a informational project in magazine size, however I have a hard time finding what the standard size for magazines is?
There is no default size for this in InDesign and from ...
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Creating grids for documents
I really love grids and guides. I tend to follow and break them at cases to create visual interest.
I'm trying to create grids for a 8.5" x 11" document. What must one look for when creating ...
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What special requirements need to be considered for outdoor banners?
I am wondering where to even begin to find a place that could print something durable like a 13' x 30' banner to go on the side of a building. Is this even possible? Is a vinyl banner the best option? ...
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Which software should i use for poster designing
Current i have to use two softwares for poster designing.
The text i have to write in corel draw and then i export it in eps and then use Photoshop to give some text effects like bevel shadow etc.
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Graphic Design Conferences
Does anyone know of good/reputable graphic design conferences/conventions in the states?
I'm looking to attend one that focuses both on web and print design.
Your recommendations are appreciated.
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Do I need full 300dpi resolution photos for designing a poster?
I'm working on a poster for a local event. It has a photograph in the background. The poster itself is designed to be 11x17, which at 300dpi is about 3300x5100.
Now the photo in the background does ...
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Is it acceptable to have the front of a handbill a different orientation than the back?
I'm designing a handbill that has a sort of poster/cover image on the front and then event details on the back. I've been able to lay out the details in a more pleasing way on the back if I have it in ...
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Best practices around creating LARGE poster image 24X36
I need to create a large image (for print) at 24X36 inches. It is a seating chart poster for a wedding. What settings in Photoshop would I set for an image this size (DPI, etc.)? I would need it to ...
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What are my options for gallery-quality prints of digital artwork?
I have some traditional media artwork that I'd like to scan and then have printed to be shown in an art show. I'll be doing the scanning.
Where do I go to get this done? (What is the generic name ...
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InDesign drag/drop [closed]
So I created an annual report for my company with InDesign CS4. My assistant designer/editor also has InDesign CS4 on her machine. I create an InDesign package and save it on the network drive so she ...
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Is it possible to tell from a printed sample what software/layout algorithm was used?
Is there a way to determine, or at least hazard a guess at, which page layout engine was used in the preparation of a given print publication?
I've spend awhile looking at some quirks in the Times ...
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Life size image in Photoshop
I've noticed that Photoshop makes my image size, specified in inches, smaller than it really is. Approximately 1 inch both in height and width. Since this is an approximation and not exact, and ...
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Printing Visualization - Spot UV
I recently got a lot of offset printing jobs and with them the ability to choose options that were not available to me before.
So the Problem is that I generally have to make a presentation of the ...
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How does a printshop print large solid blocks of colour
For example: a 1.8m banner with a solid red background and white text. How would a printshop go about printing this? Surely they don't use a liter of red ink.
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What special considerations are there for printing on 'flag' signage?
I have been asked to design some advertising to print on tear-drop street signage similar to this:
My question is; are there things to keep in mind when designing for this medium as opposed to ...
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Well designed layout examples of a “step-by-step tutorial” publication
I'm trying to find examples of beautifully designed step-by-step tutorials. As different layouts as possible, to feed my imagination so I can build on that.
I'm particularly interested in page ...
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Feeding external text in InDesign
We're working on a magazine and I'm laying out the text in Adobe InDesign. Is there a way to include the texts dynamically, so that a person who doesn't have InDesign can edit the texts and the edits ...
