Questions tagged [proofing]
Questions about the final check of a document's content before production, or the final check of a test print before starting the actual print job.
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What is a "cromalin"?
I've been asked by a client to design a full page advertisement for a catalog. The specs I received mention that beside a PDF of the page we should also supply "imperatively a cromalin: Without a ...
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How can non-designers learn to approve a print layout?
I am not a designer, I am a scientist. I write papers in Word or LaTeX, the conference organisers give me a template with fonts, rules like "Caption for figures go below the figure, captions for ...
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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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Do graphic designers format and proof read documents? [duplicate]
Do graphic designers format and proof read documents?
We are editors of large reports, mostly from government. The drafts we get are often a mess of formats, with heading structures not clear and the ...
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Photoshop color weirdness after calibrating LCD
I've just purchased a calibrator (Eye One Display 2) to calibrate my two screens, because the difference of colours between them was huge. Now that I've calibrated them, the colours are almost ...
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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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Soft proofing grayscale images in Photoshop
When printing a grayscale image it's treated exactly like the black channel of a color image. So in order to get a correct preview of how it will look on print it must be soft proofed with the CMYK ...
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Freelance graphic design - who sends the proofs?
I am a freelance graphic artist. I deal with a print broker. He has clients that he needs proofs for for print projects. I set up the proofs. Is it my responsibility as a rule to send the proofs to ...
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Color control "bars" on packaging: non-CMYK, brand colors only - what is it about?
I came accross two different color bars on two distinct cardboard packaging and was trying to figure out what these were exactly about and found some helpful illustration:1
So in the first example(...
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Laser print proofs quite dark
I'm a graphic designer and use an iMac. My monitor is correctly calibrated and I use appropriate colour settings. So when I send work to a commercial printer the colour of finished pieces are a pretty ...
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Can I display CMYK in RGB format easily?
When designing for print I obviously use CMYK, however I'm always a bit unsure of how colours will turn out because monitors work on RGB so the colour you are seeing may not be representative of how ...
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Getting better printed color matches on a budget
I make and self-publish computer games for sale at comic fairs in Japan. This is not a professional activity, and as such my budget is very limited.
When I make covers, CDs, posters, or other printed ...
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Unable to proof print on dark colored paper [closed]
I am trying to do a proof print on coloured paper in order to simulate offset printing on the same paper, but my plotter refuses to print. It loads the paper, passes over it with the light diode, ...
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Color Profile Proof - Deep Blacks with simulated paper color?
I am not entirely new to graphics design in general, but this is the first time I will send my work off to a professional printing business working with the following details:
FOGRA39 (ISO Coated v2)...
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Can I print a specific page of a tiled document on Adobe InDesign CC?
I have a rather large (5 by 1 meters) banner and I'd like to see an specific section of it in real size. I know I can tile the document on the print dialog on InDesign to be able to print it in real ...
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Why would you not scale down pages for digital proofing?
I read a good book on DTP.
The author stated, that one should not scale down the pages for digital proofing. (To cut costs). Instead he advises, that one should pick the most significant fragments of ...
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Text anomaly on PDF print?
Ahoy there.
Looking for suggestions for a problem I'm coming across with a PDF proof that was prepared by another designer.
The very simple proof (custom artwork for branded post-it notes) doesn't ...
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General Purpose inkjet proofs
I am doing some design work which will be going to print ( I normally design for screen ) .... my printer is a Cannon MP280. I have been researching colour profile, managed color workflow, screen ...
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Recommended workflow for previewing a PSD (Win) in an iPhone
I'm looking for an app that would allow me to simply view my PSD on my iphone as I'm creating it. Something like this exists for Mac (LiveView and Skala Preview), but I can't find anything similar for ...
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Is there a printing standard for acceptance of proof to printed material?
I couldnt find if the acceptance rate is 90 to 95% color difference of print versus proof. I need an industry document to use a reference.
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