getting things right for print arrrrrrrghhhh

chewy

it drives me made tryng to get things ive design on the comp right for print... ya never know whether its going to work out right

i been doing this sort stuff for years and have an amount of knowledge for an amateur graphic designer....

but ya im sure it happened to you, youve sent somehing off to the printers and it comes back ****ed up cosyou forgot to do something yet the printer printed out 10000 image with blue strawberries or something

there so many things to remember and get
wrong

forgetting to change everything to cmyk
not only changing the final image to cmyk but the subparts aswell
flattening the image
converting fonts to shapes if ya need to
including fonts in files
defining colours
spot colours
doing transparencies properly
the proper amount of bleed
making a sheet of an image
remembering hairline means hairline
the right resolution
the right image format
the right size

opening a file to re-edit t one laat time nad then not redoing one of the things above

doing some work somewhere else then forgetting to save that file to bring home


i ve just done a year graphic design and i learned very little more about this sorta stuff cos your still printing to a normal printing and in fact, don't bother about printing a real book format or cd format of sheet of flyers cos you only doing one sample....

i promised myself i wouldn't promise to do any design for anybody until i learned this stuff but now i done a bouchure and poster for a evening class i go, i dont' want to **** it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Figment

Please speak english!! Are you asking a question or just venting?

DadaKopf

Yes, I, too, don't understand what you're saying exactly. But I tihk you're making a big fuss out of nothing. I never really have any problems printing. Maybe you're just disorganized.

ballooba

I've only ever got stuff printed once but I asked my cousin who has been designing for print for 20 odd years for a recommendation.

He sent me to a crowd on Merrion Sq called 'Type Bureau'.

I just told the guy what size card I wanted and sent him a high res JPEG. He printed them out perfectly and even put in a bleed for me.

He just told me to make sure to put one in myself the next time.

Bang On.

Valentia

Woah! I hope you get others to write the copy :rolleyes:

Never convert to cymk before printing on an ordinary printer!

Valentia

chewy

i definitly am disorganised and i have to consciously work on that but i did write that rant at 4 in the morn, you know what i forgot, i forgot to convert some of the pictures referred to by the main file to cmyk...

but it seems ok....otherwise