Best suited
for the following signs:
Wide-Format Digital
Printing
Thermal Printing (Gerber EDGE)
Signs with Cut Vinyl Graphics
Vehicle Graphics
Signs with a Lot of Copy
Logos & Custom Designs
Shirts & Caps
Silk-Screen Printing
How your
FreeHand file may reduce setup expense:
For Wide-Format
Digital Printing, we can import your file with little
additional setup necessary.
For Cut Vinyl Graphics (typically less expensive) and
Thermal Digital Printing, your file can be converted to
our vinyl-cutting software, thus eliminating the usual
digitizing necessary.
Please follow the
checklist below to minimize extra setup expense.
Pre-Flight
Checklist:
Specific instructions
for making your file suit our equipment.
1. Convert
all Type to Outlines
We do not have
FreeHand, and have been unable to determine if this
command is available.
If not, please verify that we have the needed fonts.
2. Provide
linked or placed files separately
Not all file formats
include copies of themselves when placed.
Placed images should be about 150 dpi at final output
size.
3. Save as
Illustrator .EPS version CS2 or
earlier
4. Provide a
printout of the design
Or provide a .pdf or
.jpg so we can verify that your FreeHand file imported
correctly.
Additional
Checklist For Cut Vinyl Graphics:
5. Eliminate
all paths that should not cut
It is common practice
to create a complex shape by stacking simple shapes of a
common color.
However, a vinyl cutter's knife will follow EVERY path.
Please simplify your shapes so that the only path is
around the outside of the shape (and any voids within
the shape).
Also, please make
sure objects are closed ...the knife will not follow a
path segment that's not there.
Please avoid duplicates of paths superimposed over each
other.
6. Eliminate
all print-only attributes
Cut Vinyl Graphics
are only capable of reproducing type and shapes of solid
color.
Eliminate all gradients, strokes, drop shadows, glows,
styles, effects, clipping masks, etc. ...The knife is
only going to follow the path itself.
