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Nintendo's E3 'Zelda' booth is almost as good as the game itself

I think we have come across problems with this by hitting a resolution/file size ceiling in the pdf. I wanna say it's 2 gig...which depending on the overall length you can hit fast. We printed the walls for the Zelda booth at E3 last year. (3) 200plus FEET walls by 30 FEET tall...both sides...

Nice! That could really let you build an Illustrator bomb! A 200" file with that set too high my bring my rip to a screeching halt! Thanks AlteredDezignz!

If it's one thing I hate...it's eps files. They are bloated and stupid. :) The only thing I dislike more is .ps (postscript) files There used to be a thing called Pagemaker (before indesign) The only way to get a pdf was to export to .ps file and "distill" with acrobat distiller. It was very...

Are you using a rip? You might want to dial back your ink limits...a common misconception is that more ink is better. We sublimate onto fabric...on very heavy builds we have to back it off a little so we don't get ghosting in white knocked out areas.

Mike is right. Good profiles rule. There is no substitute. We use the Pantone chart method but can get in the ballpark with most straight out of the profile. One way I've done this without a color managed workflow is to make a blend of swatches in Illustrator with specified steps. It's a fast...

Are you using a RIP? Many of them have color profiling modules (at an upcharge) Most have a list of "supported" devices. Xrite has it's own profiling software, but then entails importing your profile into your print rip. I've heard some rips do not like this. It's pretty stock and will run you...

Are you going direct to garment...printing on mugs...flatbed...roll stock??? What software are you making your "templates" in now? What do you "send" over to your RIP? Pdf's...jpegs?

This people, is why Mike Adams is the man! I'm sorry I've never parted with any funds your way. Some of the info I have seen you put up are cornerstones to my color department...which when I started, our workhorse didn't even have density calibration, ink limits or printheads aligned. I...

Our transfer paper is 126" x 400' I would love if you shared your solution to this. The spindle is only like 24" off the floor, so I use one of the low boy carts on caster wheels, and just heave one side at a time. It's like wrastling an alligator but negotiating only one side at a time is...

Spoke with a rep at our printer manufacturer. She sent a screenshot of an RGB profile next to the CMYK. The gamut size was identical. The only benefit is being able to change the black temperature by adjusting color channels. Caveat...it does not change the whole gray ramp. Dyedub can be...

A rip and spectro alone may not get the consistency you are looking for. Environmental issues and a lack of process control can be just as damning. I like Onyx and Caldera. Onyx has more control, which I like. Caldera just feels a little weird to me in the the way the tabs and windows progress...

Maybe I should be more incognito!!! LOL We aim to please!

Sweet! Thanks xxaxx! I don't have a high dollar Babeiri just an i1. Just doing a little R&D! A

This is interesting, as I run a grand format dyesub setup.

I stumbled across the ability to profile in RGB through Caldera. I am trying to understand why this should be done, other than for the use of softproofing. The main difference I see is you can control your black generation prior to printing your profiling target. I prefer Onyx, but have been...

We've seen similar when something is set to "overprint" within Illustrator.

Look at comment #8 :)

I've never found a way to get a spot color through photoshop...I've been using onyx since version 5 or 6.

I would approach it like this: Do some grid variations of builds in photoshop. Save as a .psd - doesn't matter if you work in rgb or cmyk...just that it's consistent every time. (a cmyk layout in Illustrator will still retain the RGB color space attached to a raster image) I would work in RGB...