Graphic Designer
Print production and colour questions
168 questions on Print production and colour for graphic designers, easiest first.
Easy 50
- File format for a scalable logoeasy
- Colour mode for a printed brochureeasy
- Images that go to the edgeeasy
- Photo resolution for printeasy
- Complementary colourseasy
- Neighbouring hueseasy
- What saturation meanseasy
- Warm and cool colourseasy
- A logo with a transparent backgroundeasy
- Saving a JPEG again and againeasy
- Icons for a websiteeasy
- Text too close to the edgeeasy
- Colour profile for social mediaeasy
- Client sends iPhone photoseasy
- Print shop asks for a CDR fileeasy
- Changing a colour used everywhereeasy
- Downloading a Canva flyer for printeasy
- What the K in CMYK meanseasy
- Size of an A4 sheeteasy
- How A sizes relateeasy
- What GSM measureseasy
- Why add crop markseasy
- 50 invitations needed tomorroweasy
- Photos look dull on uncoated papereasy
- Fonts change at the printereasy
- Images print as low-res previewseasy
- What a soft proof iseasy
- Pages for a stapled bookleteasy
- Binding for a thick catalogueeasy
- Folding an A4 leaflet in threeeasy
- Protecting a menu cardeasy
- What spot UV doeseasy
- Envelope for a folded A4 lettereasy
- Material for an outdoor shop bannereasy
- Banner on a windy scaffoldeasy
- Printing for a lightboxeasy
- What paper grain iseasy
- Stickers in a custom shapeeasy
- A desk calendar that opens flateasy
- Embossing or debossingeasy
- Ordering a little extraeasy
- Sublimation on cotton shirtseasy
- Screen printing a three-colour logoeasy
- The FSC logo on packagingeasy
- Vinyl for a car wrapeasy
- Stickers that stay on the sheeteasy
- A premium hardcover bookeasy
- Why printers use SRA3 sheetseasy
- Text from the back shows througheasy
- A tear-off couponeasy
Medium 64
- Keeping brand colour consistent in printmedium
- Preflight before printingmedium
- Rich black for large areasmedium
- Black body text in printmedium
- Overprinting black textmedium
- Spot or process colourmedium
- Same Pantone, different papermedium
- Exporting for the printermedium
- A web image for a print admedium
- Effective resolution after scalingmedium
- Paper weight for business cardsmedium
- Colour meaning across culturesmedium
- Text on a coloured bannermedium
- Animated social contentmedium
- Lighter images for a websitemedium
- Working with a dielinemedium
- Previewing print colour on screenmedium
- Trying the illustration in new coloursmedium
- A white border for a die-cut stickermedium
- Colour mode for Canva print filesmedium
- Largest print from a photomedium
- A4 flyer size with bleedmedium
- Image resolution for a 150 lpi screenmedium
- Why plates use different screen anglesmedium
- Which CMYK profile to convert withmedium
- Rendering intent for vivid photosmedium
- Why use GCR in separationsmedium
- What delta E tells youmedium
- Brand colour in a CMYK-only jobmedium
- White text vanished in printmedium
- Photo in a two-colour jobmedium
- A real gold on a wedding cardmedium
- Black text set to Registrationmedium
- Cracks along a foldmedium
- White gaps between coloursmedium
- Thin white lines in a PDFmedium
- An ad for a daily newspapermedium
- Proof paper looks bluermedium
- Meaning of 4/1 in a quotemedium
- Text lost in the spinemedium
- Setting up a carton dielinemedium
- Cartons come apart at the seammedium
- Flute for a printed mailer boxmedium
- Ink for food packagingmedium
- Barcode fails at checkoutmedium
- Preparing artwork for foilmedium
- Designing a 12 m wide hoardingmedium
- Text hidden on a roll-up bannermedium
- Colours vanish on clear vinylmedium
- Reader spreads or printer spreadsmedium
- Ink marks on the back of sheetsmedium
- Why add aqueous coatingmedium
- Every card with a different namemedium
- Highlights disappear in flexomedium
- Toner flakes off on the foldmedium
- Pantone C and U swatchesmedium
- Braille on medicine cartonsmedium
- Checking a new carton before printmedium
- Why die cutting costs more on short runsmedium
- Labels come out upside downmedium
- Signatures in a 48-page bookmedium
- Printing straight onto foam boardmedium
- Screen colours do not match proofsmedium
- What L* means in Labmedium
Hard 54
- An overnight deadline for ten sizeshard
- Cheap printer, colour problemshard
- Total ink coveragehard
- Converting RGB artwork for printhard
- One brand colour, many mediahard
- Lines that disappear in printhard
- Small white text on a dark photohard
- A brand-coloured barcodehard
- Approving colour for a large runhard
- Strange patterns in a scanned imagehard
- Photos print too darkhard
- Resolution for a billboardhard
- A huge banner that will not save as PSDhard
- When to sharpenhard
- Smooth gradient prints with stepshard
- Using AVIF safelyhard
- Pixelated drop shadows in printhard
- Checking a spot colour by mistakehard
- PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4hard
- Opening a file in an older InDesignhard
- AI upscaling a small photo for a bannerhard
- Calculating spine widthhard
- Page numbers cut off in the middlehard
- When offset gets cheaperhard
- How many plates a job needshard
- Weight of a ream of A4hard
- Rendering intent for brand colourshard
- Orange that CMYK cannot reachhard
- Printers matching across presseshard
- What makes a contract proofhard
- Finding stray spot colourshard
- Pages per press sheethard
- Shadows block up after conversionhard
- Colours match in the booth onlyhard
- PDF boxes the printer checkshard
- Stochastic screening benefitshard
- Eyelets on a 3 m bannerhard
- Resolution for an airport posterhard
- Carton panels bulgehard
- White edges on cut cartonshard
- Shortened artwork on flexo plateshard
- Brand spot colours without changing inkshard
- Price per box after GSThard
- Gallery-wrapped canvas edgeshard
- A school textbook falls aparthard
- Pages drop out in hot weatherhard
- Dark images on uncoated stockhard
- Labels across a rollhard
- Last checks before uploadhard
- Greener choices for a brochurehard
- A spot tint looks dottyhard
- Sheets needed for 5,000 leafletshard
- Uneven borders after trimminghard
- Thickness of a 300 gsm boardhard