| How to scan good quality images |
| Your scans
are only as good as your equipment & operator. We cannot make a bad
scan good. (We can make a good scan bad!) All scans should be saved in
the "TIFF" format for best compatibility.
Black & white
line art: The
imagesetter is capable of printing more than 2540 dots per inch, so your
scanner should be set to: black & white (lineart) as high a dpi as
possible. We shoot for 600-1000 dpi at the final size intended. We cannot color
individual parts of your scans. If you want part of a logo colored, you
should rebuild the object in a drawing program, or obtain the original
from the artist/client. It will usually be an Adobe Illustrator EPS file
or a CorelDraw file, which is easily manipulated. Artist must provide
fonts, or convert all fonts to outlines. Grayscale & color halftones: scan at double the line screen you intend to use at final size. At 100% size at 133 linescreen - you scan at 266 dpi. so, if you intend to enlarge your photo to 200%, you have doubled the size of the photo, and you need to double the resolution of the scan. 266dpi x 2 = 532dpi most people just stick to 300 dpi to avoid thinking. mistake : too high of a resolution is a waste of your disk space and our time. you CANNOT see the difference. |