When size matters our Kodak Professional Digital inkjet printer can print up to 60” x required length without film or plates.Prints are output directly from your digital files of if required from our scans.

Super fine UV stable inks provide stability and permanency of colours, creating photo quality results with superb detail, colour & contrast.

This medium is ideal for murals, banners, billboards, point of sale, in fact any application that requires highest quality print at an affordable price.

Colour Management Commitment.

General Guidelines

• If possible please supply a color accurate proof of your file. If required we can produce a small 10x8" print of your file for your approval.
• All raster images should be saved as RGB uncompressed TIF files with no alpha channels, paths or layers.
• Duotones and spot colours should be converted to RGB mode.
• Where possible fonts in EPS documents should be outlined.
• You can have huge billboards, banners and signs that can join with precision for your display needs.

Page Size Setup

You should design at no less than 25% of the final image size, with 100 - 150 dpi of information at final print size for raster-based images

For example, for a 24x36" Display Print you could either setup a page as 1) 24x36" @ 150dpi 2) 12x18" @ 300dpi or 3) 8x12@ 450dpi.

These are just a few examples to explain the process.

Scans

Your scans should be approx. 100-150dpi at final size, ie. 100MB per square metre. Scan in RGB and save as .tif or .eps. and set files up in the appropriate color space. Please call the lab. for furthur details if required.

Output Material Options

The standard output material for the Digital Dislay Prints is Kodak Premium 270gsm PhotoGlossy. This material is a heavy weight gloss photo paper which produces a vibrant end product.

Special Media

• Premium Backlit Film – Reverse print for backlit display
• Artistic Canvas – Heavy weight. Suitable for stretching & Framing
• Banner Material – Durable & light weight, particularly suitable for hanging, excellent for sewing & grommeting.

Colour Guidelines

To ensure the most accurate colo, work in RGB mode. Results vary with CMYK to this printer becuse it is not optimized for CMYK input. It is important to realize that, even though we are completely colour managed, that the colour output will not match a Pantone Swatchbook display exactly. You should also check the actual values of the colour created rather than trusting your monitor because colour will print based on the set values, not as they appear on your screen.

How the Printer Works

The Digital Display Printer uses a newly developed process that allows for an increased sharpness of an image. Stochastic screening (also known as frequency modulation) utilzes randonly placed dots that are exactly the same size. The precision placement of each of these same-size dots yeilds a sharper image than traditional halftone printing, which utilizes eaqually spaced dots of differing sizes.

Care and Handling

Colour output problems

Quark 4.0

While quark has many problems, the color-specific problem is theat Quark automatically converts RGB to CMYK - causing unpridictable color shifts. So while you design in RGB, you cannot output in RGB. Quark is aware of the problem but does not plan to address the issue until they upgrade to a new verison. We recomend creating a test print from you file to assess possible color shifts. This problem is not an issue for RGB design in verison 3.32, so you can try saving your 4.0 file as a3.32 - keep in mind that "saving backwards' can be problematic. Check all pages carefully if you do try to save as a 3.32 file.

Mac based Photoshop 4.0

Mac based Photoshop 4.0 automatically tags images with a color space descriptor describing the monitor colours and values. This means that when you submit a presentation file containing imported Photoshop scans,or a single Photoshop file, your poster may print with undesired color "noise" that gets written into the file by Photoshop. This problem is easily fixed by installing a special Plug-in to that ships with Photoshop 4 or by upgradig to Photoshop 5.5 or greater. The Plug-in is called "Don't Tag RGB PostScript Plug in for Mac..