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mastercave:
ok so i went to pick up my vinyl overlay today and the blue on it is very dull and dead looking. on my monitor it was very bright, purest blue (0,0,255). i gave them the file as a EPS. should i have gone with another format like PDF or AI?

SNAAAKE:

--- Quote from: mastercave on May 29, 2003, 08:53:33 pm ---ok so i went to pick up my vinyl overlay today and the blue on it is very dull and dead looking. on my monitor it was very bright, purest blue (0,0,255). i gave them the file as a EPS. should i have gone with another format like PDF or AI?

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LOL...IIIIII KNEW IT !
sorry..dont wanna laugh but when I print something from kinkos..I jack up the color *all* the way !
so prints come out pretty good..
only problem is they do it wrong size everytime !  :-[
on purpose or something.
but my last overlay on vinyl was perfect size but marque was still short by an inch.
you should always bring photoshop format.  :)

Frostillicus:

--- Quote from: mastercave on May 29, 2003, 08:53:33 pm ---ok so i went to pick up my vinyl overlay today and the blue on it is very dull and dead looking. on my monitor it was very bright, purest blue (0,0,255). i gave them the file as a EPS. should i have gone with another format like PDF or AI?

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That sounded like the highest blue you could have given them.  It's kinkos - that happened to me recently with my marquee.  Not much you can do - it's a limitation of their printing apparently.  Perhaps it differs by location.  It's never going to look as great as the screen, but they in particular seem print stuff really washed out.

mastercave:
yep, they did mess up on the size. just checked at first and it's off by half and inch. so i had to go back and wait another day for it...

3dmacman:

--- Quote from: mastercave on May 29, 2003, 08:53:33 pm ---ok so i went to pick up my vinyl overlay today and the blue on it is very dull and dead looking. on my monitor it was very bright, purest blue (0,0,255). i gave them the file as a EPS. should i have gone with another format like PDF or AI?

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I don't know what program your using but if you want a close to accurate reproduction of colors always work in cmyk. By the way color various per pc, mac , etc especially monitor colors.

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