Mythbusting! (A bit of fun)

[William Taylor]

Does anyone out there have any printing myths or ridiculous "old wives tales" regarding printing that you have heard people say. You know, things that are completely untrue.
For example..I guy I used to work with suggested that if you were struggling to mix ink to match then add a bit of silver to it! Same guy suggested peeing in the ink to reduce it! Funny thing is he wasn't joking either!!!!
So you get what I mean.
I may write an article for my print blog about it so lets hear your classics!

[Greg_Firestone]

Higher resolution = higher quality printing

"I can't email the file (a 4"x4" BW advertisement). It says it's too big. Can I send it to you on a DVD? It's about 1.2 Gigabyte."

[jetzerm]

You can't use JPEG compression for images.

[Erik Nikkanen]

Does anyone out there have any printing myths or ridiculous "old wives tales" regarding printing that you have heard people say. You know, things that are completely untrue.
For example..I guy I used to work with suggested that if you were struggling to mix ink to match then add a bit of silver to it! Same guy suggested peeing in the ink to reduce it! Funny thing is he wasn't joking either!!!!
So you get what I mean.
I may write an article for my print blog about it so lets hear your classics!

Unfortunately a lot of print process knowledge is myth and it is not too funny.

One only knows that something is a myth when it is finally proven to be a myth.

[GuruMorgor]

"I am a poure dyuel, and my name ys Tytyvyllus ... I muste eche day ... brynge my master a thousande pokes full of faylynges, and of neglygences in syllables and wordes."

Yup, good old Titi, he'd be a myth I suppose. His job is waaaay easier now

[Erik Nikkanen]

"I am a poure dyuel, and my name ys Tytyvyllus ... I muste eche day ... brynge my master a thousande pokes full of faylynges, and of neglygences in syllables and wordes."

Yup, good old Titi, he'd be a myth I suppose. His job is waaaay easier now

As they say, "the demon is in the details".

[John Clifford]

You can't use JPEG compression for images.

While you certainly CAN use jpeg compression for images (that's what it's for--Joint PHOTOGRAPHIC Engineering Group), the use of jpeg for print should be used with caution. It's a lossy compression which means that each time you compress it, you lose some of the quality data. AND you certainly don't want to use a high compression as the data loss can get pretty extreme.

You can also print 72 ppi images, but do you really want to?

[Dottiek]

Looking for a source for Instant Re-focusing Software for images. Please send details-- desperately needed for blurry pictures in job due Tuesday!

[michaelejahn]

You can also print 72 ppi images, but do you really want to?

Yes, indeed you can and often should. I have been capturing screen shots of software to be placed as is at 100% into manuals since 1996. No need to up sample, as they print just fine as they are.

[MacTwidget]

Yes, indeed you can and often should. I have been capturing screen shots of software to be placed as is at 100% into manuals since 1996. No need to up sample, as they print just fine as they are.

That's because when you place the screen captures at 100%, there is no pixel dithering of the image.