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| Cloisonne:
After finding out that printing SNES covers drains out black ink cartridges like crazy, I've decided it would be easier to get them done at Staples. I've printed DS covers there before, the guy didn't question the copyrighted images. How should I tell them to print it to make sure they all come out the correct size? I know there's a certain way to print them on Photoshop, I just don't want them coming out too big or too small. |
| Maben:
Oh my God, my (annoying) experience yesterday should help you out. I print my covers at Staples, yesterday was first time printing UGC ones (8.5x14). Tell them you want the 8.5x14, unfortunately at least my location only has the basic quality of paper (20lb?). When you bring your images on a flash drive, be sure they are all saved in .pdf format. I brought my images in .jpg format, and she had to convert them to .pdf. After asking 3 times if that would resize them (and her confirming that it would not), I got them printed out. Got home and found them WAY too big for UGC covers. Went back and they reprinted them using my saved PDFs. It will save you a lot of time and hassle to bring PDFs and tell them to just print on 8.5x14, keep the original sizes. |
| Moviefan2k4:
What about uncompressed TIFF files? Has anyone encountered sizing problems when printing them? |
| wiggy:
That would probably freak the shit outta their crummy setup. I can just see the file taking more than 5 seconds to open and them professing that they simply cannot open that file type. |
| Maben:
Yeah, I should also mention that the JPG conversion took forever, and even when I supplied my own PDFs their computer was slow as shit. Like literally I thought it should be "open files, print one of each". It took about 15-20 minutes to print 11 images... |
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