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After getting some pointers by some of the folks on how to prepare files for edge printing, this is what I ended up with. My friend Kenneth Scott did the printing for me. I am very pleased.
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Thanks everyone! Nope, no problems Glenn. Saved the layout as a tiff file at 108 dpi and exact size, burned it on a cd and took it to Kenneth. The layout was done in illustrator, and then each piece was saved as an eps file, and placed seperately in photoshop. I applied the effects with eye candy 4000. When you are in photoshop, at least on my computer, the chrome is only available in rgb mode. When I wanted to apply the effects of chrome on the words, I changed over to rgb mode to do that, then converted back to cmyk for saving. Sometimes you have color changes when doing this, but on this particular one, it didnt happen. It printed out exactly as I saw it onscreen. Thanks go to Kenneth Scott for a great job of printing it for me. He's only had his edge II for about a month, but already he's pretty familiar with the workings of it. Thanks again everyone.
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RGB has a larger color gamut and will produce a smaller file size. Changing to CMYK won't provide any additional benefit. Its one of the confusing wonders of digital printing.
I don't find most of those "prism" letter styles very convincing but yours literally looks 3-D in that photo. Very, very impressive work! Thanks for sharing.
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