What’s the best format for taking images to get printed at a printer? I have 300 dpi jpegs. What would be better than this? Psd, tiff, gif etc.?
thanks.
just for future reference if you created text in photoshop, you will not get the best clarity you can. the text is best created in a vector application (eg. illustrator) where you would export your 300-600 dpi image from photoshop into illustrator then set it up (align into document, make crop marks) and place your text. Then output that ai. file and also supply the tiff image. Many printers i know rather use illustrator files for printing.
Also make sure your 300 dpi image is CMYK.
cheers
.soulty
thanks for responding Soulty. I’ve tried the photoshop to illustrator trick, and then printed them both as CMYK and the illustrator version is a lot darker. The colors get all messed up for some reason. Any idea why? Aren’t AI and PS compatible? The PS version of CMYK blue is different than the AI CMYK version of the same values of blue.
they should be the same, what values are you looking at when adjusting the blues?
Make sure both are CMYK. i know you said they are, just double check…
cheers
.soulty
I’ve found that most professional printers prefer an EPS file, so they can use it more easily with PostScript printing systems.
EPS is the standard round here for good quality printed work. 
