shecky
03-17-2004, 07:50 PM
I have been needing more and more to have prints of work made for school - my standard width home inkjet is just not cutting it - but other than the convience of printing something at 3AM i still cannot justify buying a wide-format inkjet just yet - especially since i have a lot of work wider (sometimes MUCH wider) than 13".
I have basically been looking around for local digital printing, and have been highly reccomended one who seems to be inexpensive - $3 a square foot on what i belive is an (extremely) high-end inkjet printer. I have seen some prints and yes, when you are 6 inches away from them its clearly not an offset image but from a normal viewing distance they look great.
So my question is what kind of file prep should i be looking at doing - i am printing out of either Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign. Mostly they seem to want an EPS out of Photoshop + Illustrator, and I have yet to print InDesign from them, but i know they will take an IDD package.
knowing something will be printed i typically set it up as a 300 dpi CMYK file and go from there.
Just as an aside, the on-campus printer (not owned by the school, just affiliated with them) did a black + white print for a classmate of mine, 20" square for $18 on average quality paper. Maybe i am way off but i thought that was outrageous. Their price list is here (396K PDF) (http://intranet.risd.edu/pdfs/Risd_prints_price_list.pdf)
I have basically been looking around for local digital printing, and have been highly reccomended one who seems to be inexpensive - $3 a square foot on what i belive is an (extremely) high-end inkjet printer. I have seen some prints and yes, when you are 6 inches away from them its clearly not an offset image but from a normal viewing distance they look great.
So my question is what kind of file prep should i be looking at doing - i am printing out of either Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign. Mostly they seem to want an EPS out of Photoshop + Illustrator, and I have yet to print InDesign from them, but i know they will take an IDD package.
knowing something will be printed i typically set it up as a 300 dpi CMYK file and go from there.
Just as an aside, the on-campus printer (not owned by the school, just affiliated with them) did a black + white print for a classmate of mine, 20" square for $18 on average quality paper. Maybe i am way off but i thought that was outrageous. Their price list is here (396K PDF) (http://intranet.risd.edu/pdfs/Risd_prints_price_list.pdf)