WHY??
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- Kiko
Is there some reason, why things look crap when printed but great on screen? Im not talking about colours even but layout, on the screen at print size things look full but when printed they look empty and plain.
Any tricks to over come this?
- Dancer0
You working in RGB?
- _smk0
examples?
Print size on screen is always smaller than reality I find, if that helps (I magnify to 125/30%)
is that what you meant?
- emecks0
If yer using Freehand you MUST have a PostScript printer or all images will be printed at 72 dpi and look as good as yer granny's leathery arse.
- Dancer0
Postscript printers are pricey as well aren't they?
- Kiko0
Im workig in CMYK, its not a now issue or a this printer isue
its not and I do zoom to 125 for scale 1 to 1 its I dont kno wissue, tthings look worst printed then on screen and I hate it!!
- _smk0
what does this mean?
"Im not talking about colours even but layout, on the screen at print size things look full but when printed they look empty and plain."
God I must be in xtra thick mode today - I have no idea what your talking about. Listen to these two, I'm going back to the shite-taking threads where I belong :)
- tomkat0
more vivid colors on screen?
- save0
Shit designer?
- Dancer0
:O
- Elfangio0
smoking too much weed?
CHANGE DEALERâ„¢
- _smk0
Shit designer?
save
(Apr 22 05, 06:17)terrible, horrible man. :)
- Kiko0
come on you cant tell me that no one of you have ever had this before.
it probably has to do with the vidrant colours on the screen.
- _smk0
if your getting shit colours when your printing otherwise good work you've probably just got a crap printer mate. Shitty A4 deskjet?
Not too much you can do about that, you could pay for decent proofs if it's a professional job though, but it'll cost you...
- Dancer0
If the colours are vibrant on screen and they print muted then you must be working in RGB.
Is this problem consistant through all your work or just this project?
What software are you using?
- save0
if your working with images, try arsing about with the levels in photoshop, helps define the colours more!>!?!?!?!?!?!??
- Rand0
there's a a huge difference between transmissive and reflective color-- ain't nothing we can do about it. also, monitors have a color gamut of millions, while cmyk printing has a gamut of thousands. Also, something might look tight when small on screen, but flabby and lifeless when viewed in actual size?
- Kiko0
no its it a general issue, wil all work. I just think that my work liiks so much better on screen, maybe its the printer s we have used at work or the paper, or Im rap.
Whooo knows!!
spooky
- paraselene0
rand wins!
thatòs exactly the thing, i think. shit just looks better on screen. full stop.
- Kiko0
exactly what Im saying rand.
flabby when printed buy tight on screen.
- JazX0
WHY?
You sound like Nancy Kerrigan when Tonya Harding had her thugs beat her in the knee with a iron rod.