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A Quick Reality Check on Tech Essentials
Hi everyone! 🙌 This is an exciting space and it's fantastic to see so many new faces jumping into the print-on-demand poster space! _However_, because it sits right at the intersection of e-commerce, digital design, and web technology, it can have a surprisingly steep learning curve- take extra care if you're green to this or don't consider yourself to be particularly techie. Lately, a few of us who have been navigating the technical side for a while have noticed a lot of newcomers hitting some of the exact same roadblocks. To help save everyone time and back-forth—and to make sure you’re setting yourself up to get on (roughly - it's never 100% smooth) the path you want to be on—I wanted to share a quick overview of the baseline technical aspects that really need to be understood first. 1. Skool Forum Basics Threading & Direct Replies: On these forums, always use the direct Reply button on a specific comment that you're posting a response to, rather than posting a new standalone thread/message. This keeps conversations linked and ensures the person you are talking to gets notified. 👍 2. Image & File Fundamentals Resolution & DPI: Knowing the difference between screen resolution (72 DPI) and print resolution (300 DPI at full physical dimensions). Your 7020 x 9930 pixel file for printing 300 DPI on A1 (or still a respectable ~200 DPI on A0) will make your printed chipolata look like a jumbo plantain when zoomed to 100% on even a retina display (a retina display is a posh one on a MacBook where things look MEGA sharp). File Formats: Knowing that you're dealing with PNG and JPG formats predominantly, and what those entail. (Tip, PNGs tend to have huge file sizes because there's no loss in quality at all, whereas JPGs are more manageable because you might lose a tiny amount of detail zoomed in, the kind you won't notice on a poster). 3. Data & Asset Management Uploading & Aspect Ratios: Matching design aspect ratios (e.g., 2:3, 3:4) to specific poster sizes so designs aren't cropped or stretched incorrectly. Yes folks, it's 100% up to you, to provide the busy folks at PrintShrimp with the correct sizes to begin with!
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So it's best to export our prints as jpg's rather than png's? I've always used png because I knew that was the best way for quality but did always notice the file size but I just put up with it
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@Bart Tutaj So you only switch to exporting as a jpg if it was saying the image size is too large for a png?
Is there an image of the frames we can use for our listings?
I might be wrong but I'm sure I seen somewhere in here not too long ago a picture of the 3 frames with annotations on the image showcasing their features, or something like that. Can someone attach it if so please, thanks!
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@Tim Crowley I looked there, it wasn't any of those I could've sworn there was an image where 3 of them were stacked on each other.
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@Mat S yesssss these were exactly what I was on about. Legend mate thank you
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