print poster/kinkos question!!
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- laboboy
im designing a poster for a guy whos gonna print them out using kinkos. i never done print stuff before so what settings should i be doing it in and what should i be saving it as. hes going to print them out at kinkos. so should i still use cmyk 300 dpi? and what file should i save the final copy in? .tiff? the poster is 36"x48". at 300dpi its gonna be a bitch designing it on my small monitor. im working at 10% zoom. is that what everyone else has to do? or am i missing something. print is a bitch!
- blastofv0
don't worry too much about 300 dpi at that size... no one will get close enough for it to be an issue. 300 dpi is important for small format print work that is viewed from a foot or two away.
definitely CMYK unless their roll printer uses something else.
if you don't know how to prep files for a print job, call the printer you're going to use and ask!
- blastofv0
oh, and Kinkos is scary... avoid at all costs
- mitsu0
i have a question then,
what are good alternatives to kinkos? personally, i'm looking to do a poster as well, but i figured i'd do a prototype at kinkos to see how it looks in print and then go somewhere else for the final product... just don't know where a good 'somewhere else' is to go.
- blastofv0
just don't trust a commercial print job at Kinkos unless the budget flat rejects a better option.
I've spent tons of money at Kinkos— output EVERYTHING there in school— but the machines are shady, and the staff only occasionally know what they're doing.
for mock ups it's great though, and if you can hold their hand through the process, you'll get decent results
- mitsu0
"if you can hold their hand through the process, you'll get decent results "
she had better be one hot chick for me to do this!