How Do I Get The Best Film Output For Gift Paper Boxes Of Square

How do I get the best film output for Gift Paper Boxes Of Square

 

As a design and production personnel, everyone hopes that their completed electronic files can be smoothly and quickly output in the output center, and get satisfactory films. But for many people who have recently joined the publishing and printing industry, the output center always seems to be working against them, not to say that this is not good, that is not good, that is not able to deliver the film on time, and even because of mistakes and new films. In fact, when the output problems, many are the cause of design and production, these problems occur in the output center, the design and production personnel may not see these problems, in fact, these problems are not complicated, as long as the experience once, you know how to avoid, if the design and production personnel can take into account when working, try to avoid the occurrence of problems, You can save a lot of money and valuable time.

 

Trouble with the font business

Usually the design and production personnel at work, will choose a variety of fonts to meet their design needs, but because of the variety of font library, the output center can not be equipped with all fonts, when the design and production personnel use the output center does not have the font, there will be problems, the film is not as expected, carefully selected fonts into other fonts, random characters, Or just blank.

 

Therefore, the first design and production personnel should choose Hanyi, Wending, Founder and other common Chinese character library in the industry. Secondly, designers and producers should contact the output center to understand the font library they use, so that their Chinese and English fonts are as consistent as possible with the existing fonts in the output center. If you use a font that is not available in the output center, don't forget to make a copy of the font to the output center. In addition, we should also understand the situation of the output center with Chinese PS fonts, and prioritize the use of these fonts, because TrueType words need to download a lot of font information when output, and PS words only need to transmit simple code, which can save a lot of output time. Be careful not to use screen display words (visible jagged edges after magnify), because files that use screen display words do not get a missing font warning when opened in the output center, so they are often ignored until the file is output into film, and it is found that these fonts are dot matrix.

 

There is also a frequent problem that the designer remembers the font used in the typesetting file, but often forgets the font used in the graphic file (usually in EPS format) placed in the layout, resulting in the font missing in the graphic file, and the text becomes a random character. Therefore, when the file containing EPS graphics is handed over to the output center, it is best to convert the text used in the graphics file into a path, so that it becomes a graphic, so as to ensure that the text is printed normally. Of course, such a file will inevitably cause a certain amount of pressure on the output device due to the inclusion of a large amount of curve information.

 

In addition, some designers like to arrange the text in the image processing software, so that the text and the image become a whole, which can also avoid the problem of fonts. For larger titles and text that requires special effects, we can do this, but for smaller text it is not enough, because the dot matrix image output will hang the net, and the black text will not be automatically imprinted, so it will cause problems such as blurred text edges and inaccurate overprinting.

 

There is a processing method that does not have to consider the matching of fonts, but also can avoid the lack of fonts in the production of this problem, that is to generate their own PS files, the generated PS files to the output center directly out of the film, rather than the typesetting file to the output center, in the output center to open these files after the film. Before using this method, to have a certain understanding of the output center of the RIP and phototypesetter, to know that not all typesetting software generated PS files and all RIP can be compatible with each other, it is best to choose the same printer driver and the same print description file (PPD) as the output center. When generating PS files, you should choose the most common and simplest printing methods, such as color separation, adding regular lines, and making up the missing white, etc. to the output center to do. And be sure to note that when printing, the options for Chinese and English fonts should be set to "download for TrueType words" and "Download for TrueType and Postscript words" respectively.

 

In addition, because the generated PS file can not be changed to its content, if the output center found the need to modify the place, they can not help, or the design and production personnel to modify and then generate a PS file. Therefore, before generating the PS file, be sure to ensure that the layout file is correct, so as to avoid the trouble caused by future modifications.

 

Pictures bring trouble

Like fonts, pictures can cause a lot of trouble. There are often problems with missing pictures, picture errors, or insufficient picture resolution. The emergence of these problems has a great relationship with the design and production personnel.

 

In order to ensure high running speed and flexible operability, professional typesetting software usually only places a low-resolution image in the typesetting file, and maintains the connection between the layout file and the original image through the link information, and the original image file is independent. Therefore, when the layout file is passed to the output center, all the image files in it should be sent together to ensure that the output is correct. However, most designers have problems in this area, either by not transferring or missing the image file, storing the image file in a different path, or changing the file name of the image after typesetting without rekeying it. As a result, the resulting film is missing images, or has only a coarse, low-resolution image.

 

In the processing of pictures, there are many color problems involved. First, you should always use the CMYK color mode to ensure proper color separation. Of course, we also have to face the display, color spray samples, prints and other color inconsistency with the original manuscript. Due to the difference in the color gamut range of each device in the prepress process and the influence of many variable factors, this problem has been troubling many designers. Although some color management systems have been introduced now, due to the popularity of the relationship, experience and practice still play the most important role, we should first carry out the basic calibration of the front-end equipment, and then in the case of stabilizing the working conditions of the equipment, and the output center for several times, and finally make their equipment work in a more ideal state, and ensure regular review. At the same time, consciously in the work to constantly enrich their printing color knowledge, accumulate some data, so that you can do a good idea. Because of space, there is no need to go into details here, but it is important to remember that a good color specimen is a must at all times. [next]

 

Compared to color, the image resolution problem is much simpler. In theory, as long as the resolution of the image reaches 1.5 times the number of printing control cables, it can ensure the printing quality of the image, perhaps for the sake of insurance, the industry often uses 2 times the number of printing control cables as the resolution of the image, which is no problem. If the image resolution is higher, it will not help to improve the image quality (except for line drawings), but will increase the image file capacity, increase the processing time, and also have a greater impact on the output speed. Therefore, usually beautiful color printing requires 300 ~ 350dpi image resolution, general publicity materials, posters with 300dpi is enough, black and white printing on the resolution requirements are lower. With the development of web production, many designers will use GIF format images downloaded from the Internet. These Index_colorRGB mode pictures on the screen display and print the effect is very good, but can not separate color, it can not be used directly out of the film, if converted to color separation CMYK mode TIFF images, there is no good way to increase the image resolution, while not reducing the size of the image file. In Photoshop, to increase the resolution to the required value of the output, just add interpolating pixels, that is, on the basis of the original pixels calculated by the software to create new pixels, and can not actually increase the details of the original image. Therefore, the only way to guarantee high-quality images is to scan them at the desired resolution and output size.

 

Some designers copy the picture from Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other software, and paste it directly into the layout file, then the layout file contains only a WindowsMegafile (WMF) format file, after RIP interpretation, the picture is not the resolution is wrong, is the color is wrong.

 

The correct way is to copy and paste the picture from Word and other software to Illustrator, CorelDRAW and other graphics software, store it in EPS format and then use Photoshop and other image software to open the required resolution, carry out the necessary processing, and then put it into the typesetting software. Of course, this method of processing presupposes that the image originally inserted into software such as Word has sufficient resolution. The layout software can scale, rotate, mirror, tilt and so on the picture, so the design and production personnel in order to more convenient work, will be used to these processing of the picture in the layout software, rather than in Photoshop and other image processing software. As everyone knows, the scaling, rotation, mirroring, tilt and so on carried out in the typesetting software should be explained by RIP when output, which will undoubtedly increase the workload of RIP and extend the output time. Therefore, it is best to scale, rotate, tilt, mirror and other work in image processing software such as Photoshop, and then put it into the typesetting software. In the process of image processing, due to various needs, designers and producers will generate some paths, which will also consume a lot of time in the interpretation of RIP, affecting the speed of the film. Therefore, the redundant paths and channels should be deleted to make the picture as simple as possible.

 

Design and production should be set for the output

Design and production personnel do not necessarily consider the layout file page size on the output of what kind of impact, when the file page size and the size of the output film does not match, there will be a lot of problems, which directly leads to the waste of film. The output center in order to save costs, it is necessary to change the page Settings, these work takes time, and may cause other problems that will not occur, if the design and production staff can take into account this problem in advance, it will be very beneficial to improve the efficiency of the film and reduce the file error rate.

 

The phototypesetter can usually generate the standard line of the printed matter, such as the dime, the central city, etc. Sometimes, for special printed matter, the standard line automatically generated by the phototypesetter can not meet the requirements, and it is necessary to draw the standard line by hand. When drawing the rule line, pay attention to the line to choose "extremely thin", when four-color printing, the rule line should be defined as CMYK four-color ink is 100% of the field color, the fold line, the backbone line, the corner, the middle line have their own rules, do not make a mistake.

 

If you need to make up, in addition to some precautions of the rule line, but also pay attention to the order and direction of the make up, folding format to meet the requirements of the binding factory folding machine. It is best to print out a small sample with the printer and fold it into a book to check. If you need to crowd multiple layout files together, pay attention to whether the Settings of the same name, color, etc., between the layout files are the same, otherwise there will definitely be confusion.

 

For the leak repair white, can be set in the assembly software, can also be set on the RIP, or use a special leak repair white software, it is recommended that the design and production personnel to the output center to do this work.

 

When the design and production personnel need to output files ready, these files and fonts and other output related files should be copied together, sent to the output center, which do not include old files, intermediate process files, design samples and other easily cause confusion or unrelated to the output of things. At the same time, it is also necessary to tell the output center that your printed matter should be printed on what kind of paper, the number of printing colors, whether it is a large plate, the number of hanging cables required, the output proportion is how much information and so on. In order to ensure the accuracy of the output film, a final proof should also be submitted to the output center for verification. The above are some of the problems that affect the output during the design and production process, and perhaps the problems listed here are not comprehensive, but they are indeed very common. I hope this will help those who have recently joined the publishing and printing industry.