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| bitsandglory:
Hi all, This may have been discussed before but I just searched for like 20 minutes and couldn't find anything definitive. Feel free to delete/lock if it's a duplicate post. I want to print my SNES & NES UGC covers at a printing place. I don't wanna drop tons of $$ on ink cartridges when the SNES covers suck the black ink out super fast. I went to the printing place today, and asked them if they could print out of paint (using the way the guide uses) and they said no. They need everything coverted to .PDF, which I have no problem doing. But is there a way to size them correctly "out of the box" so this place doesn't have to do any work other than printing? Or at the very least, is there a specific way to print through, presumably a PDF viewer or Acrobat, that I could write a tutorial for them? I don't want to have them print stuff out at the wrong size, and I have 100+ things I need printed. Thanks in advance. |
| Jeremy1976:
I use photoshop to re-size the image and save as a pdf. professional printers do not use paint...its foreign to them |
| wiggy:
--- Quote from: Jeremy1976 on February 03, 2014, 05:18:48 PM ---I use photoshop to re-size the image and save as a pdf. professional printers do not use paint...its useless to them --- End quote --- Fixed. But seriously, are you trying to make a single PDF which includes all the files you want printed? |
| Jeremy1976:
thats much better. I wasnt really sure how to word it |
| bitsandglory:
--- Quote from: wiggy on February 03, 2014, 05:21:46 PM --- --- Quote from: Jeremy1976 on February 03, 2014, 05:18:48 PM ---I use photoshop to re-size the image and save as a pdf. professional printers do not use paint...its useless to them --- End quote --- Fixed. But seriously, are you trying to make a single PDF which includes all the files you want printed? --- End quote --- Ultimately yes, I would like to make a single .PDF. I know how to do that though. My issue is I'm unsure what size I need to make the JPG initially before the PDF conversion. Are the covers already print ready if I convert them to a PDF (other than setting to landscape & legal paper size)? I guess my confusion comes from printing at home over the years with older computers (I don't have a printer upstairs for my Photoshop), so I used Paint. As a result, there's a bunch of margin changes and potential %'s to change prior to printing. I want to make it as easy as: I give the printers a PDF, they make sure it's set to landscape and on Legal paper, and they print it at the correct size (Rather than ginormous or too small). And you all have to excuse me- I am a web designer that has a severe disdain for printing/desktop publishing/etc., so I am next to clueless with a lot of printing stuff. --- So in summation: If I just convert my downloaded covers from JPG to PDF, put them in a document, tell them to print landscape & on legal sized paper- is that it? Or will it print the wrong size? |
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