Choosing the right paper stock for your prints is an important decision to make. The descriptions below are intended to point you in the right direction to ensuring your paper choice is correct and you are thrilled with your prints when they arrive. Enhanced Matte holds color exceptionally well and has a body thickness of 12…
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Have you ever noticed viewing an image on your monitor versus a print of the same image is vastly different? This is because monitors are rendering images and content at 72dpi which is a universal standard. On the other hand, commercial printers are typically set by default to print 300dpi – what is dpi? DPI…
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The world will forgive you if your photo isn’t tack sharp on a large print. However, the world will not forgive you if the text isn’t sharp. We’re used to seeing some blurriness in large photos, up to a point. However, we’re also used to seeing text tack sharp in large prints. And, it’s usually easy to…
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1. Make sure you have the proper equipment: Staple gun, Canvas Pliers (a wide pliers that grips 2-4″ of canvas at a time), and a good table that won’t scratch the canvas. A blanket over a table may work well. 2. Make or obtain a stretcher frame. Stretcher bars are available on-line, or from many…
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Most of our customers purchase photos and prints to be sent directly to their customers (some using the “blind drop ship” option, and others using a ship address different from their own address). By watching the success or lack of success of thousands of our customers, we’ve been able to make some good generalizations regarding…
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1. Avoid older PDF-creation software. PDF-creation software prior to about 2008 contained a serious bug. The files would rasterize (convert from PDF to a form usable by other software) fine when creating small files, but would drop characters and parts of characters when creating large files suitable for large prints. 2. If you’ve cropped your…
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Everything would be simpler if all image files used the same color space. (0,0,0) would be black. (The first number is red. The second number is green, and the third number is blue. The numbers range from 0 to 255.) (255,0,0) is red, (0,255,0) is green, (0,0,255) is blue, (255,255,255) is white, and (128,128,128) is…
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Older monitors and video driver boards varied considerably from unit to unit. As a result, monitor calibration programs were devised to attempt to reduce the errors. New equipment is considerably more accurate. A new monitor and a new computer, operated at nominal (“out of the box” — including intensity at nominal, not maximum) settings, is…
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