Question about blury sign Help please!!

[JHunt]

I am fairly new to sign making and on my roland printer I was trying to print a sign for our local napa parts store but when I started it printing you can see it is very blury or pixelated from how much I enlarged the image I assume, lots of squares pronounced in the image. It was enlarged to around 300% to the original image size. my question is can I clean it up or fix it or what can I do to help this. I know it seems dumb to an experienced sign person but im stumped. Any advice is appreciated....thanks

 

[mameighan]

You will run into this a lot. Brands of the World will be your friend. Do a search for NAPA at www.brandsoftheworld.com. Most employees (and owners) won't know what a vector is and is often quicker to find it yourself. The site will get you most of the bigger companies

Mark

 

[Z SIGNS]

Blury in Blury out

 

[JHunt]

thanks for the info guys....I really appreciate your responses. I will check out the links

 

[Mountain Man]

When vector artwork is not available, you often have to create it yourself. You can use whatever they've given you (often a low grade .jpg) as a pattern to create a drawing based on lines above it. You'll have to learn to control bezier curves to do this. There will be a tutorial on this in whatever program you are using to design - start there. It's not difficult once you get a feel for it.

 

[signage]

When working for a true NAPA approved dealer they can get you the proper art at the proper resolution or correct vector image/logo!