print help...photos in print
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- squiddles
hi folks
had a proof back from my printers and the photos in my document look weird and sort of grainy and have lines along, very faint
looks a bit shithow is this so?
i took the photos in TIFF format, and shrunk them down, and sent them off included in the artwork in PDF format.what am i doing wrong to have shitty quality pics?
some of my type looks a bit shitty too. although that was outlined
- brandelec0
make sure your printers print 300 - 350 resolution and make sure your files are that too
if it still does it, change printers
- stewart0
MAKE SURE YOUR PDF DOC WASN'T A RGB DOCUMENT!
- brandelec0
try sending them as eps files too, you don't lose any quality at all with your type with that
hope that helped
- squiddles0
good thinking...
i did notice on a previous laser print, they sent it out at 720dpi or something...:)
thanks mang! i think that might be it :D
- jk_b0
Uh? Its just a proof , right?! Not a cromalin. If so, you've only gotten a digital print and if the job is printed in Offset you shoudnt expect the two to look alike, pics can be shitty on the proof and not when finally printed, so as long you know that you've done your job right dont use the proof for anything else but checking if everything is there, fonts look okay etc ...
- squiddles0
Thanks JK.
Maybe i was quick to assume this would be pretty much a carbon copy of what i see...
i know for def that the final run is offset.
why does the photos look poor though on the digital print? is it just basically a quick printout?
thanks for this info, much appriciated
- jk_b0
its just seems to differ a lot from place to place, but the way you describe the images sounds like a quick digital print to me, getting a cromalin of your job is rather expensive, so its something I personally would only choose to get if its a new printer and a pretty big run.
- squiddles0
makes sense!
thanks again :D
will ring up just to double check before i go out printing 9 badzillion copies
- spartacus0
I had the same thing happen to me, it was the system the printer was using - direct to plate - didn't like .tiff files for some reason, something to do with the software.
resave the as .eps and as said before you should be o.k.
- matt250
when i think proof, i expect it to be accurate to the final product - that is why you are proofing it partially!
- rasko40
yeah but you pay a lot of money for a proper wet-proof... generally they're just digital cromalins at best.. bit silly really
- Mick0
Did you have TIF compression set? Somethimes that will stuff things up, but it does sound like your TIFs may have been saved as RBG, not CMYK.