Wednesday, September 06, 2006

And heres the final artwork ready to print.

I left the template in place to show you how this works, naturally if this was a print ready file (I exported one of those as well) the template would be removed so that hairlines didn't appear on the stickers once it was removed from its backing and applied to the dvd's.

Time to move on to the case sleeves and inserts which again I'll pull from templates already created.

I work as a print technician and graphics operator, its sad but 90% of what I do is the same stuff again and again. The artwork changes, so do the materials requested but I have a bunch of templates that are used and re-used. Thats the nature of the beast. New wine, old bottles. To a certain extent its about established guides and formulas for safety's and bleeds etc. Theres also the non printed media to think about as well. If we're doing artwork for a dvd or cd, well a cd is round, the boxes only come in certain sizes etc. Technically an invite could be any shape and size you please but envelopes only come in certain sizes so there'd be no point in creating or printing cards that fit in no known envelope. The same goes for movie posters, tickets and damn near everthing that we produce. Certain formats are accepted and maintained because of cost and convention. Its the nature of the beast as it were.

Boring I know, but common sense really.

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