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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Yes that last version seems to be just perfect.
Whats the technique for making the background a bit darker?
My brother in law works in press and he gave me some tips about how to prepare an image for printing.
Has to do with the dot size in printing.
Greg.
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"Dot gain" - depending on the paper, ink will spread into the substrate at different rates before its surface tension overcomes the capilliary action before it dries. Newspaper is like printng on toilet paper, where a placed dot will gain quite a bit in area before it dries. Gloss stock is less prone. The problem comes when dots on the paper grow in size relative to adjacent dots within the CMYK rosette, muddying the image. Remember that print does not use the RGB colour model either - it's converted to CMYK first. Good proofing simulates these tendencies and gives you a very accurate result. Web offset presses aren't just large ink-jet printers......