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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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How can I determine how much bleed to use?

With anything large format, it's prudent to ask the printer how much bleed they require; it's often in excess of 0.5". This is especially true if it's going to be mounted. Dry mounting a 8'x 4' duratr …
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Wall Decal Printable Area Measurements Issue

Assuming that the printer is also going to arrange installation, they can do a site survey to confirm the sizes before printing, so let them worry about breaking the artwork up into the relevant secti …
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Printing in CMYK

Having looked at your card, you shouldn't really have too much of a problem converting your chosen colours to CMYK and then adjusting them to your liking. Those blue/aqua tones should hold up in the C …
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Illustrator Design Not Printing Correctly

PDF is the standard format for print these days, especially PDF/X; you can export a PDF directly from Illustrator. Also, while you set your document to CMYK, save for web will create RGB JPGs. For s …
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Large Format Photograph Printing

You've got several problems at play here, some of the technical, some of to do with managing the expectations of your client. Firstly, the technical: a 6 megapixel image will give you around 3000x200 …
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Varnish On Giclee Print

You're not having much luck as it's not economical: to spot varnish the giclee they would need to be trimmed down and run through a litho press. The set up times would make a short run prohibitively e …
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Which typeface is suitable for marking of wires?

Consolas comes installed with Windows as standard, so widely available, and has distinct 0 and 1 glyphs.
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Bleed Size for Exhibitor Stand In Adobe Illustrator

As always, ask your printer first, but for some background: Unless your printer is printing direct to media, it's highly likely that the prints are going to be mounted to some kind of substrate. That …
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Is it OK to layout landscape images vertically in a book?

While changing orientation isn't unheard of (indeed, sometimes it can be used to striking affect), it's worth pointing out the full range of options available to you, obvious though they may be: Cro …
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