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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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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Printer Resolution
The Windows 7 printer preferences dialogue box tells me:
Print pixels: 1416 x 2152 dots
Does this mean that I should always provide an image of 1416 x 2152 pixels to achieve max quality? How is DPI ...
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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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Examples of Business Cards?
I'm looking for some inspiration flip through. What are some places that you visit for business card examples or galleries?
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What are common mistakes that you see in “professional” designs? [closed]
This might be too subjective but I'm curious about other peoples' experiences. Mods, please close if this is too far into "not a real question" territory.
I see many questions on this site about ...
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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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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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Where do the various international business card sizes come from?
According to the Wikipedia entry on "Business Cards", various countries employ several standard business card sizes. US/Canada use 3.5 x 2in, UK uses 85 x 55mm, ect.
Apparantly, the following ...
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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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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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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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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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Making a business card. Any advice?
I went around the web, reading articles about business card mistakes, and here is a full list of them:
Don't use cheap materials/techniques or attempt to print your own.
Don't use metal business ...
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What application can tile one PDF page multiple times on a sheet?
I have a two page PDF, page 1 is business card front, page 2 is business card back.
I want to print 9 copies of page 1 on sheet 1, then print 9 copies of page 2 on sheet two (duplex printing prints ...
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What are the dimensions of a business card?
As per the title. What are the dimensions of a business card that fits in a wallet? (i believe it is a global standard?)
Bonus marks if you can give the history behind how it arrived at that ...
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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 ...
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What resolution should a large format artwork for print be?
For wall sized graphics and large banners (e.g 3m x 5m), what is an acceptable PPI for print.
As i understand it 300 PPI is the typical for 'small' artworks (esp. for clean text resolution), however ...
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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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Why do we still use points as a measurement of type size?
I'm in the UK, which uses metric units for pretty much everything now except road distances and beer (obviously best kept apart).
Page sizes have been metric here and in most of the rest of the world ...
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Is it possible to use a fully open source workflow for print design?
Is it possible to use only open-source tools in order to produce professional level artwork? Has anyone actually done it? If not, where are the current gaps?
Assume I'm producing a small multi-page ...
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What DPI should be used for what situations?
I've been seeing the word 'DPI' pop up quite a lot when I export my work out in Photoshop and Illustrator. While I know that DPI stands for 'dots per inch', and that if you have too low of a DPI on an ...
