Best suited
for the following signs:
Wide-Format Digital
Printing
Thermal Printing (Gerber EDGE)
How your file can save setup expense:
For Wide-Format
Digital Printing, your file may print as is, with little
additional design time.
For Cut Vinyl
Graphics (typically less expensive) and Thermal Digital
Printing, your file may possibly convert to our
vinyl-cutting software, thus eliminating the usual
digitizing necessary.
Please follow the
checklist below to avoid 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 Paint
Shop Pro, 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
.AI, .EPS, .TIF, .BMP, .JPG or .PDF
4. Provide a
printout of the design
Or provide a .pdf or
.jpg so we can verify that your file opened
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.
