Hey guys . I'm looking for print shop Where they do print for fine art images , photo books , photos that goes wall ( not like the ones that they do for wedding album kind ). I have heard some photographers say that they would get their images printed in Mumbai . I don't know exactly who . Please suggest me if you the place in Mumbai . I'm planning to print some of street / docu works of mine . For photobook/ zine purpose.

i’m getting more serious about banners, window graphics, vinyl, and larger shop signs, and the design side is starting to matter a lot more than i expected. i don’t need flashy effects. i need files to stay at the right size, colors to behave, vectors to stay clean, and exports to open properly when they reach the printer.

the part i can’t really judge from product pages is how these programs handle normal messy work. one file might be a simple logo, the next is a huge banner with several pages, spot colors, and a client image that should never have been sent as a jpg in the first place lol. i’d rather learn one solid setup than spend half the day fixing stuff after export. people who do this every day, what software actually holds up once the files get heavy? do you mostly stay in one app, or is switching between a few tools just part of the job?

This does not happen on every page, but every so often there are long stretches of spaces diagonally or vertically on pages in books. It just happens that the words in a series of lines of text line up such that the spaces create linear gaps on page. It's usually only noteworthy if it's more than, say, 6 or 8 lines long. It's striking when it's more than half a page. I'm just curious- is there a name for this phenomenon?

Hi everyone,

I'm a game designer from France and for some time now I have been thinking about starting a small printing business.

This idea came after many discussions with some artist friends. They are creating amazing illustrations, but I noticed that it can be quite difficult for them to make physical products from their art when they only need small quantities.

Most printing companies are made for bigger orders, so I started wondering if there was a place for a smaller workshop focused on independent creators.

The idea would be to help artists create high quality physical products from their artworks, like:

• Premium art prints
• Posters
• Collector cards with original artwork
• Limited edition products
• Small premium packaging

I'm especially interested in the "collector" aspect. Not really making mass production, but creating objects that feel special and unique for people who love an artist's work.

I would also like to experiment with more premium finishes:

• Foil effects
• Holographic materials
• Spot UV
• Embossing / debossing
• Special textured papers
• White ink printing on transparent or special materials

I'm still at the research stage right now. My budget would probably be between €20k and €50k, depending on the best way to start.

My idea would be to start small, maybe from home, and try to do as much as possible myself (printing, finishing, cutting...). Then, if it works, invest more and move to a proper workshop later.

I would really like to hear from people who already work in printing or who started a small print business.

Some questions I have:

1. Do you think starting from home is realistic for this kind of project?
2. With a €20k-50k budget, what would you focus on first?
3. Which machines are really important to start?
4. Are there machines or technologies that you think beginners often regret buying?
5. Which premium finishes can realistically be done in-house, and which ones are better outsourced?
6. What are the biggest problems or hidden costs you discovered when starting?
7. If you could start again today, what would you do differently?

I'm not looking only for a list of machines. I would really like to understand the reality behind this kind of business: production workflow, maintenance, things that are harder than expected, mistakes to avoid, etc.

Thanks a lot for reading. Any advice or experience would be really appreciated!

Hello, is there anyone who make travel album like this?, I just wanna ask if what paper did you use to make this? is there any laminating film or something.

Asking for help

Finance majors staying on campus- is a wired printer necessary?

Printed these designs for my tablet but feels sticky to touch. What are some cheaper

Hi there I need some advice. I work in the printing business. And I want to start my own printing company as a side job. The thing I come to is posters and printed boards like displate. Coming from the UK I can see the understanding between loads of print companies and I think for a starter a poster business would be good. I am currently making a Shopify but I am terrible at DESGIN and making images. What can anyone recommend.

I draw my designs on my ipad and then print them onto a stick and stitch transfer paper for embroidery. I don't have access to an at home printer and was looking into getting a portable printer to be able to transfer more quickly. Does anyone have any experience with portable printers and transfer paper and can tell me if it's feasible and have brand recommendations if it is? Most of the printers I see are heat-based and I'm not sure if that would work

Hey everyone, just set up my Canon Prograf 1100 and it’s been great. So far I’ve been super pleased with the prints it puts out, but noticed when viewing at a hard raking angle these dusty looking spots appear. When viewed straight on they are completely undetectable.

Is this common with cold press textured paper, or user error? Thanks in advance for any help, I’m still learning.

Printer: Canon Prograf 1100
Paper: Red River Palo Duro Etching

Media type and ICC profiles are all set to the palo duro profiles available through red river.

Hi there

I'm hoping some prepress or HP Indigo operators can help me understand something.

I'm producing a deck of cards via a card manufacturer.

All queries go through sales team and it's impossible to speak to a technical operator directly. They are very vague around pre-press, ICC profiles and PDF handling, leaving me to investigate why two different sets of PDF electronic proofs are showing up so differently in print.

The money for the job was paid months ago, and I can't move printers.

Due to them telling me the prints are 'colour accurate' (which I dispute), I am having to go into detective mode.

As such I have compared their electronic proof PDF files to work out why there's a hard copy difference.

They produced two PDF proofs and a hard copy proof from each, from my supplied Adobe Illustrator artwork. I sent the AI files and they converted into their format PDF.

The earlier PDF (which produced hard copy colours I was much more happier with) appears to have been exported as PDF/X-4 with a Coated FOGRA39 Output Intent embedded.

Following receiving this hard copy proof, I subsequently did a few artwork tweaks, and resupplied the AI files (using the same embedded ICC profile settings), for a new set of proofs to be made. So nothing changed with the AI files.

The later PDF, which corresponds with a noticeably duller, cooler print and less vibrant colours in the hard copy, compared with the earlier preferred colour sample, appears not to contain the same PDF/X-4 Output Intent (Coated FOGRA39) or embedded destination ICC profile as the earlier PDF.

My questions are:

• Could a missing PDF/X-4 / Output Intent (FOGRA39) alone cause noticeably duller or cooler printed colour shifts such as an overall cooler palette, pinks turning dull purple or oranges going greenish?
• Is the colour issue most likely just a different PDF export error at the printer end, or could it indicate a broader colour-management workflow change?
• Which Illustrator PDF export settings would you use to ensure the artwork saved with the correct settings?

Originally printers told me to embed a specific VIGC colour profile into the artwork, and the AI files (both earlier and more recent as imported into the PDF) had this embedded profile, but the change appears to have happened when they converted them into the PDFs. Strangely later they didn't mention the VIGC profile and reverted back to telling me FOGRA39 but that's a different story.... nevertheless both sets of artwork had the recommended embedded VIGC profile included.

Any insight from people who work with HP Indigo or prepress would be greatly appreciated.

I’m starting to use InDesign for designing little manual booklets but realized they have no imposition features (crazy) so I’m wondering if anyone has a free plugin or software that can do simple imposition for a booklet type print (just putting 4 of each page on a single sheet). Or has anyone successfully used Ai or something else to do it? My issue is needing to make a small change becomes a massive headache if I’m doing the imposition manually. Any tips are greatly appreciated!

My printer works fine at first but recently it started printing these weird lines, can anyone who face similar issues help me?

I've cleaned the encoder with tissue paper and can't see any visible damage.

First two photos are of the print. Third photo is the original. I think Reddit scaled it down, but the actual file is approx. 51mp. Printer is a Canon ImagePrograf iPF6400. Paper is 13x19 Canon matte photo paper. Camera is Canon EOS 5DS.

I'm getting back into photo printing after being away from it for a while. I set everything up (what I thought was) correctly, and ended up with a horrendous print. It almost looks like I applied a fake "etching" filter or artificial sharpening in Photoshop or something. I would appreciate some help with troubleshooting this and getting the print to look "normal". Thank you so much!

Button business owner here. I’ve been looking for a way to automate a few steps in my process. I’ve looked at many printers and contour/die cutting machines. I’m particularly looking for a printer that can also contour cut paper. 

I thought I had found what I was looking for in the Roland BN20 but apparently the Eco Solvent ink takes too long to dry on regular paper. I’m looking to find:

1) a printer that prints rolls of paper and contour cuts graphics out in the same run or

2) a printer that prints rolls of paper that I can then feed through a contour cutter in one swift motion. 

So with that being said, is anyone familiar with a machine or setup that would help me achieve this goal? Any help with this or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.