I have these .png images that I made, they are stickers for the meritocracy party as I'm selling them off to people around the world, well I'm trying to make a sheet of stickers that I can print off and then use a guillotine to divide them, there are 16 meritocracy stickers on each page, well when I copy them onto a new a4 page it makes them blurred, originally they are quite clear but I can't figure out how to copy them without blurring them.

 

And by the way, how would I ensure that the quality was to the max when printing them? I need these to be of a really high resolution, no blur at all, I want them to stand out and shine when being stuck on walls because people like things that look shiny.

 

Even on the .xcf sheet they look blurred (the gimp file).

Edited September 27, 201411 yr by NullDrone

Do you have the original file? For print it needs to be a min of 300dpi with 5mm bleed.

as browser bugs said - ideally you would use a layout program such as indesign or the open source scribus and then make a pdf to the Printer's specifications. bitmap text even at a decent 300ppi resolution won't be as crisp as vector text from a layout programme being exported to pdf.

 

or the same if you're printing them yourself

 

i would test a couple of the stickers and print them yourself to see if there's enough contyrast between the background and the small text - i wouldn't go above around 20% opacity (i.e. equivalent to a solid 20% black background) and would err more on the side of 5-15%, oh go on then around 10%.

 

i don't understand why you're using "%100" instead of "100%" ?!

The original image you attached is 292mm wide as a printed object. 292mm is about the vertical height of an A4. If you want to put 16 of these on an A4 then the width would be about 100mm which is around 35% of the original.

 

When reducing by this amount the result is almost sure to be blurred as the editor will need to decide which pixels to discard to make the reduction.

 

To be honest the resulting 100mm slip would be tiny in terms of something to stick on a wall..

hence why you should use vector/layout programme no loss in quality when resizing (apart from the background image and the logo if that's an image)

hence why you should use vector/layout programme no loss in quality when resizing (apart from the background image and the logo if that's an image)

 

Wait, so are you saying that I would design it on photoshop and then move it over to indesign to print it? I thought that you would use photoshop for all your graphic designs except logos. I did make it in GIMP but the text was made on inkscape, I've now downloaded windows and Adobe CS6 master collection so I can use that.

 

How do I find out how much PPI it is? And how do I edit that? I haven't really printed anything like this before.

photoshop/gimp for images - prepare them to the right size @300ppi,
illustrator/inkscape for vector stuff - e.g. logos.
indesign to do the layout and type the text, then export as pdf

 

make your background image in photoshop (or gimp...) and make it 300ppi @ 100% - so if it needs to be say 7cm x 5cm then in photoshop go to the image > image size and make the document/print size 7 x 5 cm @ 300 pp (pixels per inch).
if your logo is in a vector format (e.g. illustrator) all the better - simply place in indesign and size it as you wish

 

then place this in indesign. set the text in indesign using the text tool. export as pdf and choose 'high quality print' from the presets (if it's not already slected)

 

print the pdf