Category: Printing your work

In China printers use special terminology for paper size, based on divisions of the largest sheet of paper. So for example if you divided the paper in four, the...

Most printing companies and publishers will request tiff graphics files, and when you save as tiff in photoshop you’ll be given the following compression ...

These are dead-tree printing terms used for offset printing. Offset printing is where the inked image is transferred (=offset) from plate to rubber sheet to pap...

Prop your painting against a wall on a sunny day. Put the camera on a tripod/box aimed straight onto the painting to minimise distortion. Minimise “bulgin...

Image by Bromskloss Note that where I am (China) there is a limit on large volume printing sizes: The widest they can do is 70cm (there’s no limit on leng...

From this excellent post by Dan dos Santos. Don’t convert to CMYK unless you are specifically asked to do it. Many printers are now designed to work from ...