What to Look for in a Commercial Printing Company
How do you start to look for a commercial printer for your business? We list some helpful tips here. Contact Ego Id Media for your custom print needs today!
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Everything You Need to Know About Fine Art Giclée Printing Services
What is Giclée Printing? Giclée comes from the French word gicleur, referring to the French technical term for jet or a nozzle. Used as a noun, giclée involves a liquid squirt. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on a modified Iris printer in a process invented in the late 1980s. It
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CROP MARKS – add them or not? We prefer to do that here at the shop, so no need for you to add them.
Crop marks are used by printers to show where the finished product will be cut or trimmed to the final piece size. It is better if you give us files without any crop marks. Why? Because we often need to adjust your files to make them ready for printing and if your file has crop
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WHAT ARE BLEEDS? – Bleed is the term for printing that goes right to the edge of the paper.
We prefer 1/8″ (0.125″) bleeds added to your file. Example: If you are ordering 4″x6″ postcards your print ready file should be 4.25″x6.25″. This adds 0.125″ around the outside of your files cutting line on all sides. Additional Layout Notes: 1) Keep all critical design elements and text inside the safe area 2) Do not
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CMYK or RGB? – It’s Best if you do the RGB-to-CMYK conversion of your images!
CMYK will look more accurate on your monitor to what your prints will look like. All printers print in CMYK colors. Montiors display colors in RGB and some of those colors are not possible to print. Therefore, all RGB colors will get converted to CMYK during the printing process. Example: a bright bright red showing
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Ego id Media is a San Diego commercial printing company that can handle all your print, design, and promotional needs.
Hours
9:00am – 5:00pm
Monday – Friday
Contact
Tel: 619.283.1199
Fax: 619.283.1166
info@egoidmedia.com