Questions about print work, CMYK, printers and textiles.
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How to use Illustrator to Create DIN A4, six-sided folder-flyer?
I'm not sure how to know which space I need to set a document in Adobe Illustrator CS5 when I want to create a six-sided DIN A4 folder-flyer. Is there a template somewhere out there that I can use? Or ...
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What resolution do I need for images placed in InDesign?
I am creating a A4 Print PDF file from InDesign. From the InDesign file I am doing the following :
File > Adobe PDF presets > [High Quality Print]
Doing this exports a PDF file from InDesign pretty ...
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What are the basic rules for designing a book (novel)? [closed]
I promised my friend I'd design a book for him he's releasing for free and I could use the help of you guys.
I'm going to use the latest InDesign. The book should be in .pdf format and is intended ...
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Colouring illustrations - RGB or CMYK?
I am in the process of colouring a series of hand-drawn illustrations in Photoshop using a graphics tablet. The colouring process takes place mostly using Photoshop's native drawing tools - 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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Haltone pattern within InDesign [closed]
One of QuarkXpress features I used a lot in the mid-nineties was the ability to apply an halftone pattern to any bitmap import. It was unbelievably effective when printing black&white graffiti ...
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Define crop marks for each design that is 4-up on a letter size page.
I'm trying to print a birthday invitation, 4 to a letter size page. I'd like crop marks for each. How do I set crop marks without having to draw them by hand? Is there a feature when printing or ...
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How can I have prints with white ink?
Say, I have a small business card that has solid, dark background and white text. Registration, ink amount and look & feel -wise I'd prefer the paper itself be dark and the text printed in one ...
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What kind of black should I use when designing for CMYK print?
my question is what kind of black should I use when printing.
At the moment I use this black (split into CMYK) :
C:0%
M:0%
Y:0%
K:100%
It looks fine in InDesign or Illustrator but if I save a PDF ...
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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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Digital pen with realtime viewing
I've looked for this online forever but can't seem to find it.
Is there a digital pen that doesn't need special paper, uses easy to replace cartridges, and let's me see what I'm writing on a screen ...
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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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Crediting a typeface in a finished work
Hey does anyone know how you are supposed to credit (if you are supposed to) the typefaces you have used in a printed work (case in point - design exhibition catalogue for my BA)
I've been using ...
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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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What's the best way to print a mostly black 8.5“ x 11” page?
I'm making a brochure for my company, and I went with white text on a black background since it looks the best. There's also a picture, so color is required.
At any rate, after a few test prints of ...
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Inept knowledge about dpi and ppi,please help?
I have designed a web header 1000x98 at 72 ppi using Macromedia Fireworks for our website and we are planning to print a billboard using that header? The printer has told us that he needs the image ...
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Can digital presses print right up to the edge of a sheet?
I wonder whether it's possible to print completely to the edge of physical paper (not print with bleed that will be trimmed/cropped), because with laser printers it can't be done. Toner would burn ...
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Illustrator EPS File To PNG Web Logo - Print Quality
I have been provided a typographic logo in an EPS format and I am creating a PNG with it (File | Save For Web & Devices) to be used on a web site. One of the pages on the web site is a "print ...
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Problem printing PDF from Freehand-10 via Acrobat X
When I go to print a pdf file with "Adobe PDF printer", I get the following error:
cannot complete command because read or write access has been denied.
This very strange error only appears if I ...
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What's the difference between CMYK Black and RGB Black
I know this sounds a stupid question, black is black right?
Wrong:
It's black right? so why are the CMYK Values so far away from black?
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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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High Quality Photo Book Service
I'm looking for a reliable photo book printing service that allows the option of uploading a high quality PDF or Indesign file, but also prints using high quality photo prints.
I've used Blurb, but ...
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Do you use colour lasers for proof printing?
I own an EPSON Stylus Photo RX640 printer which prints really good on special paper media, but is rather poor when it comes to normal (>75%) printing on plain papers. Beside that it's also quite ...
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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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how to keep printed documents accurate color reproduction
Is there a way to widen the gamut of a cmyk print so that the darks stay dark and the lights stay light? I suspect it has something to do with color space being exported, but I don't know how to ...
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How do I make screenshots look good when printed in CMYK?
Whn printing screenshots alongside black text, black areas of the screenshot look a washed out muddy dark grey - what causes this and can I improve matters?
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What is 5-colour printing?
When my print rep talks about five-colour printing, what does he mean? I know you have cyan, magenta, yellow and black - but what's the fifth?
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What is page bleed and how can I avoid issues with it ?
I have never had problems in the past with printing documents, but ever since I started doing posters or mockups.. somehow I end up unconsciously cropping or padding (I am not sure it that is the ...
