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Dale Feicke
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Got a question......

I;ve never run into this before....

Customer wants me to order him a couple of rubber stamps (like check endorsements, etc.), 1/2 inch high X 2 inches long. Ok, go to the stamp maker's website and download my artwork.

Now, they contact me, and tell me my artwork is only about 75 dpi, and they'd like 600 dpi. How can lettering that's only about 1/4 of an inch tall be so pixelated? And how can I make it a higher resolution......or can I?

I'm using an older version of Flexi (like 7.6 or something like that). Thanks!!

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Chuck Peterson
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In my Gerber Omaga program if I save something as a raster image it comes out looking more pixelated than it should even if I save it as high res. My workaround is I either:
Enlage it 200 % then save, then size back down in Photoshop,
or
Save as AI, then export from Illustrator as high res.

edit:
I should have read your post more slowly. I see the art is something you downloaded. That's another story. I'm sure you'll get replies.

[ August 21, 2014, 04:34 PM: Message edited by: Chuck Peterson ]

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I THINK THE RUBBER STAMP MAKER IS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!
i have a ENCAD 36" PRINTER..... that at its best does 600 DPI......i think there is a problem between RESOLUTION.....and DOTS PER INCH... here.
your monitor is 72 DPI, but my video card resolution for my 26" monitor is like 1920 X 1400))))

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That's what the man said.......honest!!

I went back and re-laid it out....then went back in to Rasterize, where it gave me a choice of a couple of resolutions, the best being 600dpi. I clicked on it, and now my new layout appears much clearer.

Now, I don't know what exactly I did, or if it's going to come out in pig-latin or whatever.....but it looks pretty good, so I'll re-send it to him in the morning......and see.

Any other insights are welcome.

[ August 21, 2014, 05:56 PM: Message edited by: Dale Feicke ]

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what kind of file are they asking for? I always send a vector file for everything printed (ad specialty stuff, etc.) if they can't use a native vector file, they are in the wrong business. .AI, .EPS even a vectored .PDF should be their primary file preference.

I have no idea why they would ask you to rasterize the file- which is going to just make a lot of pixels- sometimes I have found that the vendors just don't want to fight with the customers on what kind of file type they would prefer and just tell them- "send me a jpeg, it'll work"

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Thanks Mike!
I went ahead and resent it, and asked him to contact me if there were any problems, or if the resolution wasn't good enough.

Haven't heard back; so maybe we're in the ballgame.

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Dale, can you just export it from Flexi as an .eps and send that? or a .pdf file?

[ August 25, 2014, 10:36 AM: Message edited by: Rick Sacks ]

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