Print ready standards ?
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- maikel0
Just to clarify, I have been artworking or overseeing artwork for quite a while and worked with large and small lithos, plus digital. At the moment I sub-out print or I use the in-house facilities (flatbed large format UV printers, solvent printers, thermal transfer digital, and latex printers - all through an Onix X rip.
The problems I have are best practices, as I need to co-ordinate the production of many agencies and suppliers for each project.
- Arabic/international text. Even if you have the font, if your computer hasn't the right language package the spacing will go cookoo. I learnt that the bad way.
- RGB normally prints better in some digital rips as it increase the ink load. If you do the same for a litho (RGB converted into CMYK) your images will look bloated for sure.
- embedding against supplying images: sometimes when the images come in older versions of illy or other software packages they appear misplaced.
- transparencies are bitches - full stop. all those fancy pantzy effects are rendered in RGB colourspaces, and different rips will process them differently. It is hard on rip level to compensate the colour calibration of non-standard substrates when you have two overlapping transparent objects. I know it is not that frequent, but hey, I am trying to find universals...