Tayda UV Printing

Tayda says that all images should be vectorized, but it doesn't actually seem to matter. I submitted this one a while ago, background is not vectorized, they didn't say anything and went ahead with it, print came out great.
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This is true. I think Tayda makes an issue of vectorizing elements for two reasons: 1. Font issues. If we send in files with a bunch of fonts they don’t have installed, there’s issues. and 2. Overall, vectorized images should print better. But there’s a million other factors in good printing. It’s simpler to just say ’send us vector art’… Just theories, of course...

Below example: Fonts are vectorized, or converted to curves or whatever. The background is just a raster image I created in Procreate and sent over to Affinity. Don’t tell Hugo.

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UtilityBeltFX said:
Okay, so you guys think they'll print my T2 pedal? I was scared it had too many colors or something...
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I expect they'll still print it, I say go for it. As long as their software can load it I don't think they really care, you just may have to accept that the colors don't always come out the way you expect. I did one a little while ago with a neat gold-ish color that should have printed light-brown (at least it does on my printer), not realizing that they explicitly say no gold colors allowed. They still printed it without saying anything to me, but it came out straight yellow instead of the light brown I expected.
 
vigilante398 said:
I expect they'll still print it, I say go for it. As long as their software can load it I don't think they really care, you just may have to accept that the colors don't always come out the way you expect. I did one a little while ago with a neat gold-ish color that should have printed light-brown (at least it does on my printer), not realizing that they explicitly say no gold colors allowed. They still printed it without saying anything to me, but it came out straight yellow instead of the light brown I expected.
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Alright cool, thanks. I'm gonna go for it!

Also check out my first Tayda printed enclosure! My sisters daughter is named Mila Echo so I built a delay for my brother in law!

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swyse said:
that came out great, what was the gloss issue?
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I'm still not positive but I THINK that at one point I created a drop shadow in the gloss layer using the cmyk values of RDG_GLOSS rather than actually selecting that color (which you can't from drop shadow?) Eventually I deleted the gloss layer and started over with drop shadow which i believe corrected the issue.
giovanni said:
Looking great! Is this non vectorized?
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Its fully vectorized but the image i pulled the miami logo from wasn't the highest resolution, so I had to do a lot of manual cleanup. Thankfully it has a brushstroke quality to begin with so I think it looks okay at this size.


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I opted to have all the lettering gloss but leave the basketball logo matte white. It took on an almost metallic sheen which was a pleasant surprise. Kind of resembles the dimples on a basketball.
 
UtilityBeltFX said:
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I opted to have all the lettering gloss but leave the basketball logo matte white. It took on an almost metallic sheen which was a pleasant surprise. Kind of resembles the dimples on a basketball.
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Very cool! I'd love to know the secret of how the faux metallic sheen was specified, if you can tell from the original file's difference with the other white halo (or does that have the same effect?)
 
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