I'm sucker who's making a BANNER, for a friend...

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Foozball

April 19, 2023, 09:02:46 AM
Preface: Yes, I know we shouldn't help people with their hobbies when it comes to Printing, but this woman was ready to dive in and help last month, as soon as she heard I was unemployed. She's from our industry, and knows why I "paused" when she asked! ;) 

It's a straight 48x24 banner/1 color/less than 50 words, I've already done the text in Illustrator and working on a vector version of the logo ...
- Is there a preference on file format these days? 
- Do people work in AI nowdays? (AI is still my weakest program)

Any constructive advice/pointers welcome!  >:D

Possum

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April 19, 2023, 09:13:28 AM
AI is fine but you can send the printer a PDF to be safe. 

Hey, it's fine to help out somebody once in a while. It gets to be a problem when people start to expect you to do freebies. Since your neighbor has been in the biz she probably won't take advantage.
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David

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April 19, 2023, 09:40:11 AM
Our banner printer RIPs take PDF files, that's your best option out. I would include crop marks (.5 pt at least, 3mm offset)
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DigiCorn

#3
April 19, 2023, 11:47:55 PM
Our banner software for the Roland was PDF only. Outline all the text though, to be safe.
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andyfest

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April 20, 2023, 01:24:47 PM
Quote from: Foozball on April 19, 2023, 09:02:46 AMPreface: Yes, I know we shouldn't help people with their hobbies when it comes to Printing, but this woman was ready to dive in and help last month, as soon as she heard I was unemployed. She's from our industry, and knows why I "paused" when she asked! ;)

It's a straight 48x24 banner/1 color/less than 50 words, I've already done the text in Illustrator and working on a vector version of the logo ...
- Is there a preference on file format these days?
- Do people work in AI nowdays? (AI is still my weakest program)

Any constructive advice/pointers welcome!  >:D
We use 64 inch Roland printers (VS-640 & VG-640) with Versa RIPs. PDFs and tifs are the acceptable format for that RIP.
Retired - CS6 on my 2012 gen MacBook Pro

madbugger

#5
April 20, 2023, 03:41:32 PM
We have an Agfa Anapurna M2 with Wasatch Rip.

Will take PDF, tiff, jpeg

Usually go with pdf but if it becomes problematic, straight to photoshop and flatten to a 300 dpi jpeg.

I have been very surprised at times by how good a 72dpi jpeg can sometimes print.
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Foozball

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April 24, 2023, 08:24:57 PM
Yeah, this really was not a big deal ... AI seems to have mellowed in it's complexity over the years, the only real issue was removing a PMS from the logo, which took 5 mins to find the color pallette.
Thanks for the background on everyone's machines, dumb stuff like that helps!!

Apparently there IS money in it for me, I didn't realize a public garden can double as a charity with fundraising, so I asked for a gift card instead to the value of "whatever you think"!
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