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- eloosive0
If you want that text to be super crisp and clean, forget about doing it in Photoshop, do your text in Pagemaker or Quark. If it goes below 10pts since post-scripttext over a 300dpi image is best for a business card. I do most imagery and layout in PS, but for super clean,crisp text, in print at least, go to a layout program or yeah a vector program. I concur with earlier statements.
- 70sBaby0
Thank you elooslave!
- Blofeldt0
I'd use Quark or Indesign because it sorts out your crop and bleed margins. Export as PDF's. I am in agreerement with using Illustrator too.
- next_suspect0
Bush is stupid!
Sorry...its almost illegal to go a whole thread without saying that nowadays it seems...just keeping us in line.
- toqueboy0
when you export to pdf from photoshop 7, doesn't it save the text as outlines?
- kastsystem0
dpi = dots per inch in a print job
ppi = pixels per inch in the digital filewhen you design business cards, design 300 ppi. when they print your business cards, they will use a dpi that might be 300, but depending upon how good the printer is it could be higher.
print & screen...2 different things entirely
- 70sBaby0
kastsystem -
so in other words i'll need to change the resoluion in Photoshop to "ppi" resolution.
then when i'm ready to print, i'll need to set the printer resolution to "dpi".
is that right?
- lifeinbinary0
i agree with most of you. do most of you agree with me?
- d_t_p0
300 dpi isnt "the best" for print. you call the place you are getting it printed at and you ask them what the maximum resolution the printer can output, and thats what you'll set the file to.
also. do not use gifs for print. they were invented by compuserve for use on the web. there's important reasons for using TIF and ps EPS. and both are different and better in certain situations...but generally either will be fine. PSDs are almost universally accepted as well. and because some of you were saying to use gifs, just a reminder to use cmyk.
- miracola0
dtp has a point. 300 dpi isn't necessarily the "best" for print.
Most printers just use a standard 150 line screen when making films, so you want to have your dpi twice that amount (300 dpi). But, many printers are also able to bump up to a 175 line screen or 200 line screen for no extra cost. That means that you should create your art at 400 dpi. It gives you kick ass results. At those resolutions, you see almost no dot. It's amazing.
300 dpi is a standard, but make sure you check with your printer.
- toqueboy0
but the reality is that you're probably going to get it printed digitally on cheap stock, so just make sure that the edges of your card are white...
cause digital medium comes off of the edge of cards with a little wear...and the white will hide that...
- ribit0
In my case I was just sending them a 'big enough size in pixels'... I didn't really care if they printed at 300dpi or 800dpi or whatever... I was just supplying an 'adequate' level of detail in terms of number of pixels in the GIF file.... and specifying what size in mm I wanted... works fine for this type of low quality/cheap printing...
I couldn't see any quality difference on screen between GIF and TIF, and print results were fine (including photo quality illustration parts of the design)
obviously I'd do this in Illustrator given the time and $ to get someone to lay it out for me... to get a sharper result..