The Importance of Using High Resolution (300 D.P.I.) for printing
When designing digital files intended for commercial offset printing, it is essential that all of the photographs and images in your in files are high resolution. If you have ever seen printed material that contains blurry or blocky images which often provides a bad presentation, it was likely caused by incorporating low resolution images. Ensuring a high quality printed job is as simple as making sure all photos and images in your digital files are all high resolution. The information below covers the specific differences between the two and how to avoid problems.
What is D.P.I. and how it will affect your printed job?
D.P.I. or “Dots per Inch” is the measurement used within the printing and graphics design industry to determine how sharp an image is. Web graphics and online photos are normally created at 72dpi (dots per inch). This low resolution is great for the web because the images look excellent on a computer monitor and the file sizes are very small which helps web pages load faster. However, when designing graphics for commercial printing purposes, your images should be 300dpi or better, here’s why.
Take a look at the example to the right. Essentially, the difference between 300dpi and 72dpi is found in the amount of pixel information (or dots) for every square inch of the image you are viewing. The more dots/pixels the image contains, the sharper the image will print. As a result, printing will look blurry if a 72dpi image is used as compared to using a 300dpi high res image.
Asking For Your Customers Help
Posted by Admin on Dec 3rd, 2009 | Comments Off
Try this: Ask your customers to write a review. Tell them it’s important before the holidays. Don’t give an incentive, just ask them to do it. They’ll do it!
In business we know that our customers and clients are the number one thing that will make us succeed. They will ultimately decide if we fail or make it in business. The decision they make depends on us a great deal, our products, services, customer service, hours of operation and prices to name a few factors that we have control over.
photo credit: helgasms!
So if you find yourself not knowing what you should do, which step you should take next or what your customers want… ask your customers for their help! If they truly love your business and the products or services that it offers then they will want to see you succeed. It is like that timeless saying “you never know until you ask”. So don’t be afraid to ask them for their support and help.
Source: Damniwish
SD cards to get 300MB/s bus
Posted by Admin on Dec 3rd, 2009 | Comments Off
The guardians of the SD memory card specification announced version 3.0 of the technology less than a year ago, but that hasn’t stopped them talking up version 4.0 already.
SDXC, launched on 7 January 2009, takes the card’s capacity to 2TB and ups the maximum data transfer rate at the bus to 104MB/s.
SD 4.0 – which will also be branded SDXC, it seems – almost triples the bus speed, to 300MB/s.
Like SD 3.0, 4.0 cards use the eXFAT file-system, so the maximum capacity will stay at 2TB. eXFAT is also known as FAT 64, the 64-bit upgrade to FAT 32.
Earlier this year, the SD Association said it was exploring SDXC’s bus speed to 300MB/s. What it didn’t say, but is now made clear, is that the upgrade will require a new pin array. SD cards current sport nine contacts on the edge of the card, but that is going to increase, the SD Association admitted.
SD 4.0 cards will have ten pins, one of which will handle the serialised data stream that runs at 300MB/s. The remainder will operate in parallel to deliver backwards compatibility. The size and shape of the card will not change.
The SD 4.0 spec is due to be completed by Spring 2010. ®
Eat your hat poster
Posted by Admin on Dec 2nd, 2009 | Comments Off
Vector poster “Eat your hat” at Mac Donald’s
