Color Matching (Monitors versus Prints)
There are good reasons why some colors don’t look the same on your printouts as they do on your monitor. Colors on your monitor are displayed via an additive color method: starting with black, colored...
View ArticleCost-wise choice of colors/inks
The inks you select for your job can affect both readability and price. Your printing vendor may have different pricing options for various color schemes. The cheapest will use one or two spot colors –...
View ArticleTraps and Underprints for Screenprinting
There are several ways for screenprint jobs to be misprinted, but there are also different things you can do to compensate for that when building your web-to-print artwork. The process of printing...
View ArticleResolution and Viewing Distance
If you know the ultimate destination for your web-to-print artwork, you can build the file accordingly — which helps optimize readability, document size,, web-to-print processing time and time during...
View ArticleDots-Per-Inch versus Pixels-Per-Inch
Many people are inclined to use the terms DPI and PPI interchangeably, but that can be dangerously misleading. Web-to-print templates for print products should be using DPIs and web-to-print templates...
View ArticleInk Saturation
It’s advisable to keep your target printing environment in mind when setting up your files. Depending on the format of your web-to-print document, the colors may print in in unexpected manner without...
View ArticleUpsampling
Creating a high-resolution image from a low-resolution original is no substitute for starting with high-rez data… no matter how many times you’ve seen it done with spy-satellite photos in the movies....
View ArticleDot Gain
Depending on what process you’ll be using, dot gain is something that may have a large impact on your final print. “Dot gain” refers to the ink spread that happens when a printed shape of a certain...
View ArticleColor Chart for Printer Gamut Test
If you’ve wanted to test the color range your printer is capable of, we’ve got just the document for you. It is extremely useful for web to print design and production. This .PDF will print a sample of...
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