Re: Posting graphics for print use

Why don't you use good quality JPG thumbnails (72 to 150dpi)for your users
to browse.  When they click on a desired image it would link them to the
300 - 600 dpi download file.

Since I develop training materials and have had to utilize high quality
photographic images in my training materials I can see how they would want
300dpi as a minimum for printing.

Don Haller
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----- Original Message -----
From: Moe Rubenzahl <moe(at)maxim-ic.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Posting graphics for print use


> We want to post graphics on our web site, suitable for magazines to
> download and publish. Questions:
>
> 1. FORMAT: JPEG, TIFF; CMYK, RGB; DPI
>
> What format should we use? We are presently using high-quality JPEG,
> 300 dpi, CMYK; typically 250K for a 4x5 inch image.
>
> I think 300 dpi is overkill but apparently that's what at least one
> magazine asked for; not sure what is industry-accepted.
>
> Not sure about CMYK either -- one problem is that if a user clicks on
> the JPEG, they see a very bad image as the browser doesn't recognize
> CMYK.
>
> Maybe should use TIFF? And if so, how should we encode? LZW
> compression? I know this used to be problematic, especially
> cross-platform.
>
> 2. ENCODING: JPG, SIT, SEA, ZIP, EXE
>
> We have the raw JPG up there and problem is most users click on the
> link. They get just the upper left corner (since it's 300 dpi) and a
> bad on-screen image (since it's CMYK). We can tell them to alt-click
> or option-click to download rather than view but few will follow the
> directions.
>
> I'm thinking we should have them archived in Zip and StuffIt.
>
> 3. WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING
>
> I surveyed the web and found a very low level of care given to this,
> even in press pages of vendors like IBM. Most posted a simple link to
> an RGB JPEG, about 500 pixels wide, and left it at that.
>
> IBM had JPEG and TIFF links (not sure how they were encoded).
>
> Apple posts BinHex encoded TIFs (can Windows users get at these??).
> Their images are Mac-TIF, LZW compressed, RGB 272 dpi.
>
> No one used ZIP or SIT. Looks to me like everyone has skirted the
> resolution issue entirely.
>
> Anyone have experience with this?...

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