Having designed say a logo or letterhead in Signlab whats the best way to save it in a format that a printer will be able to work with
I can export as a AI into p/shop then what?
I know illustrator ,corel and pshop are the favorites but wondered if it was possible to use Signlab for 'basic ' print design
Thanks Terry
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Terry
Save it as a Bitmap in (SignLab) with as high of resolution as you can. Next open in your Photo or Corel program and ajust to you liking.. Then resave it as any type offile you want too! Posted by TransLab (Member # 470) on :
Most printers will work with .eps files of .tif for bitmaps.
Posted by John Arnott (Member # 215) on :
Don't use any color blends, or it won't export as an EPS or AI into Corel. If you just want to have it printed by someone else, a bitmap is better.
Posted by Bob Kistler (Member # 4049) on :
I'm a new member to this site but as a screen printer doing work for the trade, file conversion is a constant problem. Illustrator, photo shop, EPS, ai all work well if, one you don't include gradations and two don't transport colors in the art files themselves. It is best to vector or outline the files, send a gif or jpg to show what you want the job to look like and let us build our own gradations and color traps.
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
If its a vector design in Signlab, I would export it as an AI or Eps file (or both). I would not convert a vector drawing to a bitmap because you will allways loose something accuracy wise.
If its a bitmap in Signlab, I would export it as TIFF or BMP as most all programs read these fine. AI and Eps can also contain bitmap data but there is less controll over bitmap settings.
If there are Gradient Fills in the drawing, i might want to export as AI/eps and hope the gradients come throught, but i would also render the whole drawing to a bitmap with as much accuracy as possible as some of the others have mentioned and export it as a tiff. Gradient fills from one program to another are very iffy.
But in short, i would allways leave a vector drawing as a vector drawing for the accuracy, but maybe supply a bitmap version for safety. All programs have thier little quirks with Ai/eps. Thicklines, line joins, corner styles, rgb vs cmyk etc.
Frank at Cadlink
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
If its a vector design in Signlab, I would export it as an AI or Eps file (or both). I would not convert a vector drawing to a bitmap because you will allways loose something accuracy wise.
If its a bitmap in Signlab, I would export it as TIFF or BMP as most all programs read these fine. AI and Eps can also contain bitmap data but there is less controll over bitmap settings.
If there are Gradient Fills in the drawing, i might want to export as AI/eps and hope the gradients come throught, but i would also render the whole drawing to a bitmap with as much accuracy as possible as some of the others have mentioned and export it as a tiff. Gradient fills from one program to another are very iffy.
But in short, i would allways leave a vector drawing as a vector drawing for the accuracy, but maybe supply a bitmap version for safety. All programs have thier little quirks with Ai/eps. Thicklines, line joins, corner styles, rgb vs cmyk etc.
Frank at Cadlink
Posted by Terry Bull Sign & Custom (Member # 1876) on :
Thanks everyone for the replies
Ive realise now that anything in text rendered to bitmap will not reproduce sharp enough for printing so im trying to keep files as vectors as Frank suggested
Most success ive had is by exporting a design as an ai into p/shop
This opens nice and sharp but for some reason the centres of some of the smaller letters are filled in ie O's open up as dots can anyone explain this ?
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