"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
My two cents.In general, one is safe accepting vector art. Raster opens up a whole new world of possibilities, even more so with the growing number of low tech owners of high tech devices.As for the OP's printer client. no offense to T-Shirt forums, but if a member there, they do have more than their share of plywood pressed, jury-rigging, duct tape using, bedroom and garage printers who are often less than current on the state of the industry. They usually do come around though, and one does have to start somewhere.
A crappy traced vector is a vector--what if it has thousands of stray nodes? Or as Dan mentions--the kid that has a huge catalog, and all they do is drop in random crazy elements, overlapping everything without cleaning anything up? Either way, it's vector, but it sucks.
Quote from: TCT on May 24, 2013, 03:06:59 PMFor us we say vector only because as soon as you say "ya, I can take that .tiff" the next order is sent as a 1"x1" .tiff and they want a 14" x 14" print. Their response is - "Well last time you took it." It sounds like you know well enough what you are doing, but 99.999999999999999% of people don't. It is much easier to make a policy - vector only, and stick to it. That way you don't end up on a Friday with someone that sent over this "wicked cool artwork I got off google images" which ends up being a 9 color and awesome quality at 1.5" x 1.5" and 12dpi.....Exactly. From people that know what they are doing, we will print all kinds of files. But the general public if you say hey I can print a JPG, your gonna get something horrible and you will spend more time chasing them for a good file or time remaking it...
For us we say vector only because as soon as you say "ya, I can take that .tiff" the next order is sent as a 1"x1" .tiff and they want a 14" x 14" print. Their response is - "Well last time you took it." It sounds like you know well enough what you are doing, but 99.999999999999999% of people don't. It is much easier to make a policy - vector only, and stick to it. That way you don't end up on a Friday with someone that sent over this "wicked cool artwork I got off google images" which ends up being a 9 color and awesome quality at 1.5" x 1.5" and 12dpi.....
Did you assign a pantone or other value to the monochrome?
Ok, so we're back on topic here.I'm just trying to figure out what you may or may not have done wrong in the file.Communication is not always what it should be.(and God help you if you rely on proprietary renditions within one version of one brand of software )
Quote from: Chadwick on May 25, 2013, 12:32:17 AMBasically they want all vector. Period. Or they up charge to print the bitmap. I don't think there is a wrong for what I did. It's just not how they accept files. Everyone has there terms and conditions.
They just don't know what they are doing.There's alot of that going around.
…then we auto traced it. LOL
I'm a tusche only shop. Quote from: Gilligan on May 25, 2013, 10:55:19 AM…then we auto traced it. LOL Auto tracing can't even get straight lines right.