#1 2006-12-07 15:14:39
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Vectoring Design
I got a doosey here.... The boss thinks that I can learn everything that our outsourced graphics design guy knows, in just a couple of weeks. Fricking insane.
Anyways,
We have a pad printer here that can do one color at a time. We also offer a service to print peoples logo's on our products (for extra fee's of course).
The graphics guy tells me that he imports a high res copy of the image into some vectoring software.... Corel Draw I think. Then he somehow makes all these separate images.
In the end, when you lay all this transparent paper on top of each other, you get one perfectly aligned image, with all the appropriate colors. Only one color is allowed per layer.
Then he sends it off to a local printing company that makes the final product for us.
Has anyone done this before? Or could someone point me in the right direction?
(I feel that the boss is asking way too much from me on this one.... NO experience with graphic editors)
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#2 2006-12-07 15:20:57
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Re: Vectoring Design
I've briefly touched upon it, most of my design work is for the web so I have other condsiderations.
I did, however, work for a company ealier in the year that did screen printing on to CDs and I had to make up the screens.
they used all soarts of stuff from photoshop, indesign, illustrator, coral draw etc etc.
I'll have a little think, see if I can remember.
All I can remeber so far is that you need to separte the layers into CYMK (cyan, yellow, magenta, black).
other factors included separating the block colours into 'masks' into the various pantone colours that we'd then mix up the paints inks for using the pantone colour matching system
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#3 2006-12-07 15:39:49
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Re: Vectoring Design
Depends on the logo design and how it's to be printed.
CMYK or RGB.
They are colour seperations.
Screens: can be dot screens for full tonal range or block colours for three or four colours.
The separations come in black and white. Unless the printer is going to re photograph them as in the old days of a graphics art camera, he'll want them as digital files.
I'd be calling the printer. He probibly has Corel Draw on his computer and can do the separations in a flash and feed them straight into the printer. No hassles, no mistakes. Screens are exactly as he wants them.
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#4 2006-12-07 15:53:12
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Sounds like a P.I.T.A. (Pain In The...) to me, and a long way around to an easy solution.
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#5 2006-12-07 16:23:32
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Re: Vectoring Design
Boss is cheap, and wants his overhead to just figure it out.
Not that I don't mind giving it a shot, but my gut instinctively tells me that this is far more complicated than just simple point and click.
Yes, I do remember the guy saying something about 'Masks'... whatever that is.
So the first step is software, and a way to get it into the software. We have a scanner here, but only have photo shop.
Suggestions where to start? Corel Draw?
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#6 2006-12-07 16:31:01
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Re: Vectoring Design
PhotoShop will do it very well. What you need to do is very basic. You just need to get a very basic job done right, exactly right.
The printer would do it for free in a matter of a few seconds, I should think.
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Laurie.
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#7 2006-12-07 16:48:52
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It's easy with photo shop?
I thought photo shop didn't handle vector files?
Know where I can go to get some step by step instructions?
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#8 2006-12-07 17:09:40
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Re: Vectoring Design
I don't know enough about it.
But I know that I can produce colour seperations that would be suitable for the printer, in about two seconds.
Check with the printer if jpg or tiff are OK.
I'd really be advising you to send the digital file of the full colour image to the printer and let him do what he does best. It's his job, you know, his bread and butter.
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#9 2006-12-07 18:16:13
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Re: Vectoring Design
Vector files have been around for a long time; just as long as TIFF -- when I was in Engineering for so many years working with various CAD systems, we had not just vector and TIFF files to work with, but most of the time these files were done in "Raster" ... do a Google search on vector and TIFF files; you might come up with solutions.
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