a tube

[egypturnash]

Saturday, as we were getting ourselves together to go help lediva move, the doorbell rang. It was FedEx with a big-ass tube.



This tube, as it transpired, contained another, smaller tube, with waxed paper wrapped around it. And embedded within that waxed paper were... two prints!



tugrik got himself a giant-ass printer recently, and is going into the art-print business. This was both a test for him and a come-on for me: I'd sent him several AI files that I thought would be torture tests, and got a couple of his test prints in return. The big one (about three and a half feet by one foot) ended up in my studio; the smaller one (two feet by six inches) ended up...



...on the oddly-angled wall next to the bathroom. Just the right size!

The strange thing about finally seeing my work printed this large is that it's not a shock - it's about the size I always saw it at through the window of Illustrator. Maybe when he solves the driver issue that aborted the 14-foot-long print he was going to try of this, it'll feel different. I dunno. It sure has a lot more impact than a little jpeg hovering on a screen does, though!

Thanks for brightening up our walls, Tug - I think there's gonna be some more stuff coming your way soon, including a significant chunk of the stuff for the show!

Comments

[neogeen.livejournal.com]

Much thanks to you sir!

I had some inkling about the 300dpi, but wasn't sure at its application. After reading and finagling stuff in photoshop, I realized all of my past pieces are at the 72 setting (gave me a heart attack!), so pretty unfit for anything larger then 8x11.

But! This gives me the ahead knowledge to watch my settings before I sink into coloring. I believe I will have to poke around open canvas to see how to change the dpi within that program, since I use it for the majority of my coloring (I use photoshop for the scanning, pre-color clean up, and after open canvas coloring touch-ups). I believe I'm starting at 300+ dpi with my scans, but OC is working at 72 dpi unfortunatly.

This all opens my eyes on my own methods, working 'backwards' as it is would be so much better. Making the blank canvas fit the final print size requirements (would it be better still to go larger and shrink down to the corrent size? Such as with digital works the shrinking causes some tightening up) - I will make scans fit the final size rather then the scans themselves determining the final boundaries.

It's just very nice to be able to gouge a printer with questions. A lot of the companies I've worked through aren't very open with the information for some reason (taking up too much time on a subject they assume everyone knows before printing, my own fault also).

Can you work with full bleeds? (I noticed the AC poster [omg omg] and peggys work both have borders)

I also poked around in your journal and saw the mentioning of car vinyl stickers? This really...really strikes my interest. :D (Something I've always wanted to do!)

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

If you take a look at the two different pics on this post, the first one is full bleed (no borders) on a perl-surface poster paper. The 2nd one is matte with a border.

I can do full-bleed on most gloss-coating type of papers from semimatte to perl to full photogloss. Most matte papers and 'fine art' papers have edge soak issues and as such cannot be done full bleed. You have to print them with a border, let them dry for 10 minutes and then cut them manually, otherwise the edges soak things up and cause streaking and marring. I'm working on getting my cutting equipment together so I can do large-scale full bleed work on any media.

While I've not done it yet (it's a little pricey, so I'm waiting for the first at-least-partially-paid excuse!), yes, this printer can handle the laser-perf style vehicle wrap vinyl, including the one-way material like you see on bus windows. I can't wait to experiment with it!

As far as other questions, sure, ask away. I've a lot to learn yet and I'm in full research-and-experiment mode. I'll start a thread for it over in my own journal soon. :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

FYI, the smaller print has a roughly 1/4" border; the big one is full bleed.