mildlyinteresting
The lettering company printed all the filenames too on this van
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OP got woooooshed and advertised for the company. They are the winners of the day
We all just got whooshed and OP works for the company.
Shit
Reddit is nothing but astroturfing campaigns. This whole post is an ad.
Yup, I think they got me, shame it's only a small regional company.
As a former president said: Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.
But now I'm really interested in who came up with this ruse and not just mildly. Damn.
It's .pdf. It says it, right there...
0% chance thats the actual file name. Real file names for any design project are ALP_QR_DECALV.2_final_1152025_rev1
V19-finalv4-forRealThisTime-final-correctedRev2
"Actually client doesnt like the color and sent a new file and is requesting revised proofs before their vacation tomorrow, can we get this out today?"
Doesn't like the colour?
It's their BRAND COLOURS 😠!
Yea, but they looked at it on their home PC and it looked different than in the office so now they are worried, can you rush a print sample to them this afternoon?
What about the last sample we gave them?! The color hasn’t changed at all since then!
They dont have it but they took a picture of it with their phone and said the color on the phone definitely doesn't match the PC and wants to make sure were using the right PMS from the brand guidelines they sent us.
Forgot about " (1)" at the end
Yeah I'm talking out of my ass here, but I really doubt that either the files created by the designer or the files sent to the vynyl cutting machine were in the PDF format lol
I’ve worked in the print industry. The PDF format was literally designed for printing. All of our print software and cutters took in PDFs. You create a spot color with a specific name, and the printer would cut out any vector graphics that used that color.
I use Rolands that do this. Will also print white and metallics with spot colours, although the solvent white is shite.
Have found that different programs output varying degrees of 'proper' PDFs
Illustrator seems to be the best. Coreldraw used to have major problems with transparencies.
Canva is absolutely terrible. It must have been advertised on tiktok or something, because I'm getting loads of print ready canva PDF files from younger people and they don't RIP as seen on screen.
Yep. I did mass automation on Rolands. The place I used to work had them running nearly 24/7.
The old ones are good (SP/VP/VS), the new ones, not so much. I curse the VG Truevis daily.
At least they don't run too hot.
I ran a UV flatbed (Jetrix) for 3 days straight last week and was considering wearing Speedos the last day
why not? PDF will separate spot colours and retains vector information, printer / cutters will designate these as cutting marks like any other file.
The likely way to print this would be to print black onto yellow vinyl, cut and then wrapped.
Edit: Corrected in the first comment chain.
Youd probably use SVG for any plotter, but the design would be proofed in PDF at least. IDK why people are so mad about the joke i made though lmao.
SVG has some issues with what size the image should she when printed. PDF works better & is common in the industry.
I said plotter not printer, i initially assumed the black was a vinyl sticker over a yellow van, large formats not really my jam and neither is vinyl/car wraps though
Even our plotters take in pdfs
The printers I operate will print and plot. Uses registration marks so you can put it back through to cut out.
I have to say, I've renamed files like this to sound more legitimate and I hated myself every time.
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IDK what format a large vinyl wrap printer would use personally
Screenshot of a jpg obviously
I imagine the proper way would be SVG because pdf file size would just be ridiculously large
No it wouldn't? PDF is industry standard for large format printing.
Wait shit I forgot how big pdf can go you're right
Is usually about 5m square, which can actually be too small sometimes. So we still have to draw at scale, but with vectors this doesn't matter.
Take note of the episode and song names on Mr. Robot.
I simultaneously hate it, and hate that i love it. I’m weird.
Similar to when Leslie Knope was running for city council and her campaign signs where just the URL printed on the sign
They’re clearly intentional jokes. Look at what the ‘file names’ actually say.
Also those are separate decals so someone put them intentionally. You wouldn't print a car.
>You wouldn’t print a car.)
I'm inclined to think the panel is fully wrapped, yellow and all. I would guess that matt black ink would have been printed onto yellow vinyl, cut and then wrapped per panel.
It would be very silly to print plain yellow wrap with some lettering instead just doing a regular yellow wrap (not printed) and then using matte black cutting vinyl to apply the lettering.
Printing wrap is plain white, so you have to print ALL of the yellow if you do that. Edit: before anyone asks; no you can't print on coloured wrap. Well, you CAN but the end result will be shit.
Furthermore, I believe the only large format printer in the market that has a matte/glossy printing option is the canon colorado series which usually isn't what you want to use for printing wraps as UV-cured inks are hard and brittle. For wrapping you'd want eco-solvent or latex printing and, as mentioned above, I'm not sure any LFPs using these inks have something similar to Canon's FLX+.
Source: sell large format printing media for a living.
Appreciate your knowledge! Thank you for correcting me.
HP latex printers are also frequently used for car wraps. They have a uv optimizer that will protect the colors. And yes, trying to do colors like the solid yellow would most likely not match and look really bad.
Also, the QR code is missing portions from the back, I don't know what's going on there, I would say it's just a failure from the company that installed the wrap so file names also could be another mistake.
Woah! Careful! Your sign making skill is showing.
That bonnet looks awfully "metallic shine" to me but you could very well be right. Great job to whomever wrapped it if it's the case because even the hinges look clean.
You wouldn't steal a car
You wouldn’t download a house
How difficult is it to undertand that they put decals on the paint? It’s not complicated
They didnt pull the classic "...FINAL-v3"
If they don't do to well in their current jobs, they can get a gig making anime titles.
I wouldn’t trust a company that actually versions their files using FINAL in the filenames
then you haven’t worked design in corporate america lol