What’s the biggest you can print?
Canvas Prints
Up to 2.6m wide
Self Adhesive Prints
Up to 2m wide
Photographic Papers - Matt, Satin and Gloss
Up to 1600mm wide
Fine Art Papers
Up to 1100mm
Vinyl for cutting
Up to 1220mm
But...... in theory you tile each section together and no-one can see the joins, so you can create huge vinyl cut decals, literally as big as a house
What is a vector artwork file?
A vectorised artwork is what you'll be asked for if you'd like us to cut your design as a vinyl decal, stencil or print file that needs to be enlarged (on a huge scale).
Vector graphics are commonly found today in the SVG, EPS, PDF or AI type of graphic file format. Example of the points in the image ref "hello!"
Vector graphics have the unique advantage over raster graphics in that the points, lines, and curves may be scaled up or down to any resolution with no aliasing. The points determine the direction of the vector path; each path may have various properties including values for stroke colour, shape, curve, thickness, and fill.
Imagine you wanted this "hello! " at 50ft high. A vector file would allow the rescaling without pixelation.
If we tried to enlarge a raster file this would be the result below. Not good at all for jpegs and its raster mates, but vectors were born to do this.
If all of this is like another language, please pick up the phone and speak to one of our team. We can help liaise with your designer/artworker directly and regenerate any raster files that need converting to vectors.
CMYK or RGB?
Both RGB and CMYK are modes for mixing color in graphic design. As a quick reference, the RGB color mode is best for digital work, while CMYK is used for print products.
Red Green and Blue (RGB) colours are created by mixing light, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black) CMYK colours are created a bit like mixing paint, but instead by printers using a 4 colour ink system.
If you are creating a design for a printed product, you should be working in CMYK, as working in RGB will create exceptionally vivid and bright colours on your screen, which when converted to CMYK (at our place) can produce some unexpected results.
We'll always flag up anything that doesn't look quite right and let you know if we've had to convert to CMYK and send a proof for you to check before printing.
How should I send my artwork files?
It's best to work in CMYK mode when producing artwork for print and below are some helpful tips depending on what you need us to print or cut (or both) for you.
Photographic Prints
High Quality PDFs - min of 72 dpi at 100%, 150dpi at 50% or 300dpi at 30% scale
High Resolution Tiff, Jpeg or PSD (Photoshop Document) files
Vinyl Decals
Vectorised PDF's, Ai, SVG or EPS files
Artwork for us to create , amend, update or tweak
Packaged InDesign Files
Vectorised PDF's, Ai, SVG or EPS files
High Quality PDFs - min of 72 dpi at 100%, 150dpi at 50% or 300dpi at 30% scale
High Resolution Tiff, Jpeg or PSD (Photoshop Document) files
Any typefaces or fonts used in the design
And as always if none of the above makes sense, please do give Tallulah a call and she loves to talk.....about anything 020 8743 3529
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