Star Fleet 2010

Ok first off the Change to both sites is something that was meant to be done but hadn’t it was done simply to make the damned thing do it, what it does is make the update so the website stays normal, This is done to make the website neat, all posts can still be accessed.

On top of that I have had to take some pain killers so I figure hell I’d post something to do with Art due to not being able to get to sleep until they kick in. So for this one we will post about printing.

What you first have to understand is that printing an image on a printer is diffrent to viewing it on your screen, for a start your printer typically prints at 150 – 300 DPI (Dots per square inch) so for a start you have to MAKE certain that your images are this size, why? Because your image is typically at 72dpi so on larger prints it can be very very pixalated or show rather small when printed due to this you always have it at 150 or 300dpi, this means you will have an image that looks right when it prints.

Second off you need to understand that when you print it does not print in the same way as your monitor works, for a start your monitor works on RGB or Red, Green and Blue (the primary colors) however a printer doesn’t actually emit light instead (as I have had pointed out to me by Ivan (my sisters husband) once and I actually tried to argue against but hey he was right and I did screw that one up) it works on CMYK or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key Black, it uses these colors instead to get all of the main color’s.

So with this in mind you should remember that most packages ALLOW you to work in CMYK mode rather then RGB, if you don’t have the image in this format the printer or program will have to convert it on the fly and you may not get the actual colors you are after, so always change to CMYK first and double check the image if you have not been working in it to begin with.

Also remember that certain inks, like certain paints may list as X color but actually be slightly different as such you should if your program allows it use those specific colors, however most times you can not.

So now you know that you need 150-300dpi and CMYK, Now that explains a lot of the printing details.

Now you have to actually begin testing that is the mian part just testing over and over as best you can until you get to the point that you can be happy with the image.

So unless I find something else that jumps to mind to tell you I have to wait for pain killers to kick in.