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How to Produce Impeccable Designs for Print

Many designers encounter difficulty and make a lot of mistakes when designs to print. The majority of these errors occur because of the conflicting settings that printers and digital screens have. These blunders are, however, avoidable if designers can take care to follow these guidelines at different stages of designing.

Factors responsible to produce impeccable designs for print

  • Color Conversion: Digital screens have a different color mode from printers and designers who want to sustain a particular color scheme encounter challenges when converting from RGB to CMYK (a conversion that is inevitable). To avoid this problem, designers should take care of convert from RGB to CMYK at the very last stage.
  • Resolution: The higher the pixels per inch in an image resolution, the better the quality of the image produced. It achieves the best results, images that are viewed at shorter eye range should size about 300 pixels per inch while 150 pixels per inch should be used for wide format printers whose prints would be viewed from a long distance.
  • To sustain quality when printing, large format designs should be done in vector art
  • For ensuring that your prints reach the edge of your work, include bleeds on your file. To achieve this, print on an oversized sheet and then trim off the excess to achieve the desired result.
  • Designers should attempt to mark out extra layers for their art files to enable them a coat and apply spot inks where necessary.
  • Designers should increase their pages by 4 when they want to create stitched booklet. This also ensures that you produce neat work in the end. Even when smudging occurs when the pages are joined together, you can easily trim off the excess areas that were smudged and still get a perfect result.

Conclusion:

Be sure to follow these instructions when designing to ensure that your work comes out perfectly within the desired period.

Graphic Design Terms 102

Sometimes communications with your graphic designer or graphics department can feel as if your talking to someone in a different language. What are these terms? What do you mean is it RGB or CMYK? Monochromatic?  To the non-art enthusiast, these terms can mean anything. But in the world of art, graphics and printing these terms have specific meanings. Here are some Graphic Design terms defined to help make your communications process easier!

1. RGB:

RGB is the standard color mode for images shown on screen. RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue, the three colors of light that are used to display images on digital screens such as cell phones, tv’s or computers.

2. CMYK:

CMYK is the standard color mode for images that will be printed. CYMK stands for Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and Black (Key). CMYK is also known as the four-color process or four-color printing. Unlike RGB which is light based, CMYK printers use ink or toner.

RGB                             CMYK

3. Monochromatic:

Monochromatic describes a color palette that uses various shades of one single color.

4. Analogous:

Describes a color palette where the colors used are next to each other on the color wheel. These are usually seen in nature.

5. Complementary:

Describes a color palette where the colors used lie directly across from each other on the color wheel. These tend to be a bit alarming at first, however are a great strategy to employ when you require specific visual elements to stand out.

These are only some of the many terms used in the print and graphics Industry that may be a little tricky to remember. Do you need help with a design for your next project? Contact us here to speak to a member of our design team!