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- alnove
just got some wet proofs back from the printer and some of the images are pixelated. The images are about 50m square.
We opened the linked images and they are big, 300dpi, cmyk, 46mb, mac version tifs. So the images in indesign are a percentage size i.e. 20%. This shouldn't be causing any problems, if anything the quality would be 'better'.
Any one got any ideas, are there any prefs for this kind of thing. Cheers
- neue75_bold0
The fact that you have scaled them down in InDesign, could be the issue... In my old editorial days with Quark, I was always told to resize the images so that when placed in the layout they were as close to 100% as possible...
- i reckon this is the issue, just wondered if there was a way round italnove
- obviously the artworker didn't get round to re-sizing the imagesalnove
- fucking artworkers... you can;t trust the lot of them..neue75_bold
- JamesBoynton0
Are you sure its not just missing links that the printer hasnt bothered to find? that results in lo-res output.
- there's that too..neue75_bold
- he reckons they've checked the files as well, so i presume they aren't missingalnove
- Surely the printer can explain why this is happening if the files are fine? or are they rubbish?JamesBoynton
- he's just passing it back onto me saying they can't see anything wrong and can i re-supplyalnove
- the files are fine, spot on in photoshop. Had this problem on another job recentlyalnove
- I scale large images in InDesign all the time. I think he didn't link to the image files. Have you tried exporting the problem pages to a high-resolution PDF?Josev
- files to a high-resolution PDF?Josev
- marchelo0
Are they images of like a dress or something with it's own pattern ? What's the term when something like that affects printing, I forget.
- johndiggity0
is that m as in meters?
- hallelujah0
are they pixelated, or fuzzy? if you scale down too much without sharpening they can get soft
what is the net dpi after scaling?
- pylon0
Do you have any other effects on images near or overlapping? Drop-Shadow, etc?
Or most likely as suggested above...
- MrOneHundred0
Check the Transparency Flattener settings in the Print dialog or Export dialog boxes. It needs to be set to High Resolution.
- 100 it alarms me when you show up because it means that I really should be done work for the day...
Good Morning!pylon - Good Morning!pylon
- haha. I sense the “end of the day” malaise when I get in!MrOneHundred
- 100 it alarms me when you show up because it means that I really should be done work for the day...
- horton0
50m images? holy fck!
save your ID files to PDF with downscaling to 300ppi, jpeg max.
- wait you say 50m x 300dpi = 46mb??? something ain't right.horton
- There's no way a 50m file, CMYK@300dpi is 46mB is there?pylon
- Damn, posted same time as you, H.pylon
- 46gb maybe? :Dhorton
- I guess that'd be about right... but a 46gig image? In InDesign? That's a huge brochure ;) Maybe we're missing something.pylon
- something.pylon
- horton0
alnove please come back and explain your math!
enquiring minds want to know.
- johndiggity0
if they are 50 meters then you should save them as .psb's and have them linked not embedded.
- pylon0
Maybe it's late in the day....
50 metres at 300dpi? What are these images captured with, a satellite? That would be something like a terabyte if it's 50m square, no?
- max_prophet0
*knock knock* come on folks he probably meant mm
- Probably,
but a 2"x2" CMYK file doesn't add up to 46meg either...
unless it's a layered TIFF I guess.pylon
- Probably,
- SoulFly0
you could hire a designer to fix your files properly
- jayoh0
why not PDF it and give the printer that?