Questions tagged [print-design]
Questions about printing, the process of 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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Does Ink Manager use official Pantone recommended values?
I was wondering if anyone knows if you use the Ink Manager to convert Pantone Spot Colors to CMYK in InDesign is the outcome an official Pantone recommended value?
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Making free Munsell color chip sheet
Munsell color reference chips are really useful for painters but awfully expensive. It should be easy to create a sheet that can reliably be printed on most printers though, shouldn't it? I.e a PDF ...
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Help identifying printing color technology and style
I'm looking for the correct printing terms to describe the attached image of an early trading card. It seems to be some form of chromolithography. Does this sound correct? Are there more specific ...
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How to deal with PDF file containing thin lines/partitioned in boxes?
We are a publisher. Customers often send us advertisements ready for printing.
Sometimes when these advertisements are in PDF file format the whole advertisement or parts of it are partitioned in ...
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What is the best way to convert text to outlines?
I know convertthis is horrible and I cringe every time the printer asks.
However, my team builds our files in InDesign and supplies print PDFs. The printer opens the PDFs in Illustrator or a program ...
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Should you convert or only assign a color profile when wanting to preserve color appearance?
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I am preparing a design to be sent off to a professional printer. I will print the exact same design on both coated and uncoated paper, requiring FOGRA39 and FOGRA47 respectively.
In ...
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Pantone gradients methods without causing breakout
Customer orders a 2 color PMS print. Black and PMS 801 C.
Provided art is a CMYK gradient. Example below.
In the next example below, converting the gradient to Black and PMS Blue not only looks ...
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How do I find on demand graphic designers in the NYC area with out using an agency?
Looking for quality, on demand designs with varying skills for on demand for print design work is nearly impossible.
Does anyone have a process of how they interview freelancers?
How do you validate ...
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Can I print a booklet from an .indb instead of a .indd file
As best I can tell I can't print a booklet from an indesign book file that combines multiple indesign document files. The prepare book for printing command seems to prepare it to be printed to be ...
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Companion colormap for text highlight color
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I am looking for resources (articles, books, posts) which study the choice of a single color to highlight text and a sequential color for two and three dimensional plots such that both are ...
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What's more expensive: hot foil or blind emboss?
Give a shared specification, which technique (blind emboss or hot foil) is more expensive?
identical graphics
same size of let's say 5 x 5 cm
As far as I know, hot foils aren't that expensive, so I'...
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Efficient way to Manual tile print from InDesign?
I've been manual tiling large documents in a way that just seems so long winded to me – I'm thinking there must be a more efficient method?!
This is what I've been doing:
Work out the print area of ...
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Ideas how to design a table/chart on a double paged spread of a thick book so it's readable and looks awesome
I am designing a double page spread for a thick catalogue. It will have over 150 pages which means the binding will take some space from the middle.
This is how it looks now:
The I'am looking for ...
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How to prepare full bleed stickers to print in AI
I need to prepare stickers with lots of detail for printing. The trick is customer want full bleed. Is there any smarter idea how to do that in AI than drawing it by hand?
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Designing and printing notebook covers
I am currently designing notebook covers and I am looking to print them by myself at home. I just would like to know if anyone has any experience with printing notebook covers and if there is a ...
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How can I print graphics on a roll of tape with a printer?
I want to save money by printing my own repeated graphic on a long strip of reinforced water-activated paper tape (the stuff Amazon uses). I just don't know if I can create a file with the dimensions ...
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How small font sizes and details can I print in a risograph?
How small font sizes and details can I print in a risograph?
Does it matter which model of riso machine it is?
How much difference does the coarseness of the paper do?
(A print test scanned with ...
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Rasterize images for print manually
I'm trying to experiment with a thing. I have a laser printer that have both PCL and PS capabilities, however the image rendition is kinda poor, the print is very noisy.
I've seen some better printers ...
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What technique is used to create this banner?
Below I've posted a video from Anar Foundation YT channel. Child portrait and text changes according to observer's viewing angle and height. Does anyone what technique this is called and how they're ...
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Case of side notes?
When writing a book, some authors put important short terms they use in the main text also into the margin near the usage position. Assuming that these marginal notes in your book are always short and ...
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Batch printing PDFs different amount of times
Is there a way to do a batch print where you can specify how often the respective pdfs have to be printed. like print the first pdf 100 times, the second 80 and the third only 5 times.
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How do I keep individual objects, each a different color, from changing to a single color when I duplicate or group? It is an SVG file in Inkscape
This is a purchased file. When I group, duplicate, or print the colors of the individual letters change to a single color.
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maintaining even stroke when trimming off bleed marks after printing
I am creating a publication that has black and white borders (strokes) that bleed out to the edge of the page. I have created a stroke that is 5.4 width around the boxes and would like to make sure ...
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Is it possible to print different foils on one area?
I have turned to this forum to see if someone could hopefully point me in the right direction.
I have had a graphic designer create a double-sided label my business requires. Almost think of it like a ...
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How to print/set-up A4 landscape saddle stitch in InDesign?
I'm pretty new to all this so bear with me.
I want to print a portfolio for a school assignment and I want it to be saddle-stitch binding. I also want the Portfolio to be A4 landscape. I've seen a ...
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Rotate lots of pages InDesign
I have a booklet that is set out as a landscape orientation. This contains hundreds of pages. I need to be able to turn them all (with contents) to a portrait orientation.
Is this possible?
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Trying to highlight specific fields in an already existing document in Adobe Acrobat Pro, getting ghost image when trying to print
So, I have a document that I am trying to highlight fields on. I have lined up the highlights, but when trying to print the "image" of the highlight onto a blank document, the original document (...
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Printing complex illustrations
I make illustrations in Illustrator using 6 to 8+ colours, masks, compound path and halftone colours and typography. On the current job (Poster Illustration without text only illustration) i needed to ...
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Scratch Off Label Printing
I am looking to purchase a printer that can print scratch off material, but am having trouble finding any companies that manufacture this type of printer. Are there any consumer printers available ...
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Unfolded mesh to 3D
I have the following pattern/mesh, when glued together turns into a 6 panel cap. On this mesh I want a continues image printed like seen on a world globe.
How can I place an image inside this ...
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Printing very faint lines on a laser printer
I do want to draw a grid of very faint equally spaced parallel lines on my b/w printer. I created PDFs with different methods (via a Python module / via Inkscape) but they all had the same problem:
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How can I print two separate cut jobs on hp latex with onyx rip?
HP Latex 360, Onyx RIP software, I have a summa plotter cutter machine.
What I have found is, as I can only fit a certain size width in my plotter I have to cut down , or make sure my print file is ...
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ID CS6: Matching blacks for printing via POD services?
I'm an experienced but self-taught InDesign user. I can put a book together for print, but I've got gaps in some basics. Still, everything I've done through POD services so far has printed clean. Now ...
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Faded Color Prints
When I print from Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, etc. the colors are completely washed out. When I print from a PDF or from the web, they look fine. Anyone know anything?
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Choosing the right black for laser monochrome print
Let's suppose that we have a monochrome laser printer and we want to print a project.
Which is the "right" type of black described by RGB and/or CMYK values that we have to choose in our editing ...
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What are the frequently used post-press processes in modern digital printing, to name a few?
I'm looking for alternatives to traditional printing processes to strengthen the physical aspects of digitally printed items. it seems with certain systems such as NEXPRESS Press Platform it's ...
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Make a transparent 3D sphere with objects inside
I want to build a 3d sphere as a container which has a blurred transparent surface and wrapped some objects inside. (Objects are placed on the half floor).
I've created something similar, in 2D to ...
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Designing 3 Billboards
So I have to design 3 billboards and this is pretty much my first time doing it where it goes to print. I'm used to designing small scale stuff so this task is a bit daunting.
I would just like to ...
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InDesign: What's causing only certain letters to print incorrectly?
I have created a document in InDesign and exported it to PDF. When printing, a certain letter ('m') and number ('2') of a certain font family (Oswald) display incorrectly in the printed document. They ...
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How to have repeating headers in sequence per page?
I've been re-learning InDesign (currently on MacOS Ventura 13.3.1) and created a test publication at 203 mm x 280mm using a real-life publication of that size as a guideline.
I'm using InDesign 17.4.
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With GIMP 2.10, how can I automatically sort and organize layers most efficiently on a canvas?
In order to print a lot of photos at scale, I create a huge canvas in GIMP and drag the images, then organize by hand. The result looks like this.
I feel like GIMP could do its own organization of ...
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Adding bleed around clipping mask irregular shap
I have an irregular shape that is going to be printed.
The printing requires a 0.125" bleed.
The shape is created through a clipping mask to isolate the object from a background.
How do I add a ...
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Any freeware programs for CMYK .tiff?
So, I'm a grad student trying to submit a scientific paper for publication. One requirement is that all graphs need to be .tiff with CMYK colors. Graphs were made in R and Inkscape, and that's pretty ...
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Photoshop saves images in a larger size than specified while creating the document
I realized this when using the Photshop generated A4 sized image as a Word template. Word tells me the image is larger than A4 and I verified this using an online tool as well.
I selected the ...
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format page sizes for 136 pages magazine for printing
we produced a magazine with 136 pages and send for printing. But the number of pages is too much for simple binding. In order to make content readable we would need to add some space on the pages ...
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Minimum printable font size readable under a microscope
I'm a mechanical engineer about to invest in a new A3 laser printer but won't have the chance to try it out before buying.
It's main function will be to print technical drawings for checking. The ...
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How to design cover page/template for infographic?
I want to design a cover page for my analytical report, which contains 6-7 charts + information. So, I need advanced/professional software in order to design text, font size/design, place charts .... ...
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avoiding 'dot gain' : preparing inner sleeve design in illustrator for printing on uncoated stock
I'm preparing album cover artwork -- I'm going to print some vinyl. The mfr recommends a disco jacket as the inner sleeve for 180g vinyl because it resists the vinyl tearing a hole over time. Their ...
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Photo currently in Figma file - how to use it for print / Illustrator?
I'm looking to print a photo as part of Illustrator Artwork I'm creating - the photo is currently in a Figma file, though, and I see that I cannot export it in TIFF format.
What would be the best way ...
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What is a good book on brochure design?
I'm looking for good books about creating brochures to learn more about how to structure one and such. I've tried to search Amazon but could mostly only find more inspirational-focused books (a lot of ...
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