Help Printing banners and file sizes

[Mrteajunkie]

I have purchased a semi auto banner Eyelet tool and banner material to print some banners.

now I thought I could just create the image in photoshop and save as eps and print.
But ps won’t save as eps only an Lso or tiff, png etc.

Any tips would be really appreciated.
I have printed a birthday banner in a2 which took forever to rip and print.

Is there a certain way to do it?

Obviously I’m restricted to 480mm width because of the bn-20.

I have found this https://youtu.be/ZoOFEFsaG_8
So should I be printing in cymk and only 150dpi?

this goes against everything I do for sublimation lol

[quadrant]

Hi,

You should have a setting for Photoshop EPS when you save as although we personally use PDF's.

We do a lot of poster printing and it's very common for them to either be 300dpi @ 50% of printed size and then printed @ 200% or like you mention 150dpi if the artwork is 100% of printed size.
They are normally viewed from some distance so the reduction in quality will be fine and the file size and processing time will be greatly reduced.

If you want to produce 300dpi artwork at 100% then you could try saving as a JPEG as the file size should be smaller.

The file should always be CMYK for printing of this type to avoid unexpected results unlike the RGB used for sublimation.

Regards,
David

[webtrekker]

I've never printed banners but have designed and ordered quite a few for my daughter's shop, typically 14ft x 3ft. I had to supply my artwork in CMYK @ 150dpi as a PDF file. These were always very large files (produced from Photoshop) and, because of their size, I had to upload them to my webhost rather than email them.

At 150dpi they looked great, even fairly close up, on the shop front.

[pw66]

Deffinately pdf for me, unless \i need to put a cut line around it.

[Mrteajunkie]

Deffinately pdf for me, unless \i need to put a cut line around it.

The only problem is it wouldn’t allow me to save as pdf.
Im going to reduce the dpi to 150 and half the size and enlarge the final print size to the full size.

hopefully it will allow me to save pdf that way.
I have been doing file/ save as copy/ as the new ps changed the saving options.

[Mrteajunkie]

I have an odd issue!

I was saving a banner as a pdf and the printing results in the top part of text being removed.
saving it as an eps prints it fine.

The text is a single layer and at the top of the layers tab. Oddly the drop shadow applied is printing behind it fine.
there is an image behind the text which is a rasterised image.

It’s also missing on the actual pdf not just when printing.
I have tried saving with different settings but no joy.

on this occasion I was able to save as eps but if I wasn’t able to do that I would have been stuck.

Anyone ever had this issue before?

[quadrant]

Hi,

Have you tried selecting the text and drop shadow layers in the layers panel and then merging them before saving the pdf to see if that works?

Regards,
David

[Mrteajunkie]

Hi,

Have you tried selecting the text and drop shadow layers in the layers panel and then merging them before saving the pdf to see if that works?

Regards,
David

I’ll give it a try and see if that works.

[AGS]

I would try converting the text to curves

I've had experience of some fonts acting weirdly when converted to PDFs

Not sure if it's a truetype/open face issue