Understanding Bleed, Trim, and Safe Zones
You’ve likely received a flyer that looked flawless in your design software, only to find it returned from the printer sporting a white outline, or perhaps the copy is too close to the cut. This…
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Print-Ready PDF: A Checklist for Beginners
When the layout’s “done,” the PDF has been exported, and the file name reads “final,” that is when preflighting should be done. A file can be fully “designed” but the page size is wrong, bleed…
What You Need to Know about Image Resolution Prior to Printing
A picture can look amazing as a digital poster but print out soft, aliased, or jagged. In this case, the problem isn’t the image itself; it’s the size that’s used. When a raster image is…
Why Does the Printed Color Different From the Screen?
How is it that a brilliant blue logo appears on the screen but duller or darker on paper? The screen and the printer create color differently. The screen emits light while printed color is ink…