Decal question
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- Claymantis
If you want to put a huge sticker in the centre of a table top. The sticker would be a logo on clear sticker paper. So you could see parts of the table through the negative spaces of the logo.
Would you just send an EPS to the printer and they would know what to do?
Or would I have to do a clipping masking?
Or a cut line of some sort?Thanks
- pressplay0
why ask here? ask the printer...
- vitamins0
A eps would most likely be enough, but it would vary depending on the printer so it would behoove you to get specs.
- Claymantis0
Anybody!?
- Claymantis0
ahh! thanks
thats what I told the client
- set0
Yea i'd ask the printer...
- monospaced0
Illustrator file works for almost all sticker printers.
- jaylarson0
just make sure you have opaque white printed behind the "positive" space or stuff will show through. any good printer should ask you first.
- bjladams0
i make those a lot. opaque white is not designed to show up as white on a clear sticker- the white is used as an additive to the regular cmyk and light magenta and light cyan to increase the range of the spectrum. if you try to get it to print white on a full color clear sticker, it will look more like a frosted color.
an eps file would be fine, as long as you have a die cut line about 1/4" outside and realize that it is going to track off at least 1/8" in any direction due to the stretching of the vinyl relative to temperature.
also, if it's going on a table that people use, it wont be long until the edges start to peel up.
- realist0
printing color on white when you could specific colors is cheaper... in cost, appearance, and longevity
so if you want it to look good and last, take my advice. registration marks on vinyl plotted decals is easy
- monospaced0
I just had a ton of stickers made, white art on clear poly. I provided white artwork and talked to the printer about why they couldn't see anything. Everything was fine and the white ink was perfectly opaque (not frosted, like bjladams claims). White ink is not used as an additive only, it's a solid ink.
- i think that's just difference between screening PMS colors and printing 4 color which he seems to be referring to.fiver
- Oh, I see.monospaced
- Right
bjladams
- bjladams0
screen printing white is different- but cost wise it would not make sense to screen print one decal. all the solvent printers that i have use of use white as an additive. most ink companies wont even supply a printer with white ink until they send out a rep to explain that one, just so they dont get badmouthed
- lol, it took me an hour to get quotes from EVERY printer for white art on clear. No reps necessary!monospaced
- no- not to get a quote from a printer- for a printer to buy white ink from a supplier
bjladams - if it's so hard for them, how did they all provide me instant quotes?monospaced
- i think you're missing the point. i run a printer. i was just giving advise from my experience. carry on.bjladams