When printing a grayscale image it’s treated exactly like the black channel of a color image. So in order to get a correct preview of how it will look on print it must be soft proofed with the CMYK color profile the printer recommends. InDesign does this by default. If I place a grayscale image … Read more
I’ve just purchased a calibrator (Eye One Display 2) to calibrate my two screens, because the difference of colours between them was huge. Now that I’ve calibrated them, the colours are almost identical. However, now I have a problem with Photoshop that I didn’t have before (or at least I didn’t have realized). I usually … Read more
I’ve noticed that Photoshop makes my image size, specified in inches, smaller than it really is. Approximately 1 inch both in height and width. Since this is an approximation and not exact, and because this image may actually be larger than what Photoshop is showing me, I don’t want to recklessly use a larger size … Read more
This question already has answers here: Who is responsible for text mistakes in a print project? (6 answers) Closed 5 years ago. Do graphic designers format and proof read documents? We are editors of large reports, mostly from government. The drafts we get are often a mess of formats, with heading structures not clear and … Read more
I own an EPSON Stylus Photo RX640 printer which prints really good on special paper media, but is rather poor when it comes to normal (>75%) printing on plain papers. Beside that it’s also quite expensive because cartridges are very expensive compared to others. I’m considering buying a colour laser printer that should keep printing … Read more
I am not a designer, I am a scientist. I write papers in Word or LaTeX, the conference organisers give me a template with fonts, rules like “Caption for figures go below the figure, captions for tables go below the table”, etc. I submit a paper in this template, which is reviewed. If it is … Read more
I’ve been asked by a client to design a full page advertisement for a catalog. The specs I received mention that beside a PDF of the page we should also supply “imperatively a cromalin: Without a cromalin your advertisement, we will not be responsible for the quality of the printing.” It’s the first time I’ve … Read more
