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Printing Formats
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zmatalucci
New Member
•PDF- eh, have had a lot of problems w/ masks in my rips for some reason
•TIFF- only at high dpi, at least 72dpi at final size
•Jpg- only at high dpi, at least 72dpi at final size
•EPS- Yes, I love vectors. Please don't put a low res .jpeg etc. inside of it and call it a vector file either.
•TIFF- only at high dpi, at least 72dpi at final size
•Jpg- only at high dpi, at least 72dpi at final size
•EPS- Yes, I love vectors. Please don't put a low res .jpeg etc. inside of it and call it a vector file either.
Letterbox Mike
New Member
from customers who supply their own art, .pdf is preferable although we rasterize it as a .tiff. We have alot of problems RIPing .pdfs, tons of transparency and color issues. There are so many ways to save a pdf that it's impossible to get a good file much of the time. But if it looks good on screen it'll rasterize and print great.
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
PDF's can have some nasty color shifts. Especially with greens.
TIF's are generally overkill. A hell of a lot of space for a minuscule improvement over a JPG with 0 compression and smoothing.
EPS if and only if a vector image is needed.
In general, the best all around performance, assuming you have your environment set up properly, is an RGB JPG. The only caveat is that gradients may show some weird banding. You can mitigate this by jacking up your dither algorithm to whatever is the highest performance dither in whatever software you might be using.
TIF's are generally overkill. A hell of a lot of space for a minuscule improvement over a JPG with 0 compression and smoothing.
EPS if and only if a vector image is needed.
In general, the best all around performance, assuming you have your environment set up properly, is an RGB JPG. The only caveat is that gradients may show some weird banding. You can mitigate this by jacking up your dither algorithm to whatever is the highest performance dither in whatever software you might be using.