File Prep Guidelines For Printing

For artwork designed for our solvent printer for outdoor durable printing applications, we generally recommend a resolution of 150 DPI/PPI at full size. This means that if you want the print to be 18" x 24", the resolution should be 150 at this size. If you design the artwork at 9" x 12", and want it to end up being 18" x 24", the resolution needs to be twice as high (i.e. 300 DPI)

For artwork designed for our aqueous printer for indoor printing applications, photographic artwork will benefit from a resolution of 200 to 250 DPI/PPI at full size.

We can accept AI, EPS, PSD, PDF, TIF, and JPEG files. If a TIF file, please flatten by going to layers -> flatten.

We recommend embedding a CMYK color profile as appropriate, and converting all text to outlines. This can be done by selecting everything (CTRL-A) and going to font/type -> convert text to outlines. This is usually only applicable if the file is an AI, EPS, or PSD.

Moss Muscle Mustang Project

This project included a combination of small, detail rich, black vinyl lettering and Controltac printing a solid black color to achieve a "dual tone" color combination for the car. Controltac was used for this part of the project, instead of black vinyl, because of its superior flexibility, which was required in order to wrap the material around curved sections of the car.


(Front before)


(Front after)


(Back before)


(Back after)


(Company name / website)


(Detailed vinyl lettering)

Pandora Architectural Signage

Although we specialize in large format printing, we can also create more traditional architectural signage including sandblasted blade signs and dimensional letter projects. Here we used two MDO backboards and dimensional letters to create sophisticated signs for the new Pandora jewelry store in the Paseo Nuevo shopping mall, located in downtown Santa Barbara.


(Front view of the two signs)


(Closeup)


(Side view)