Printer spics and specs...

I heard back from both the original printer who produced the ICRC exhibition, "Missing Lives", as well as the current printer in Bosnia, who will be printing The Rescuers. Here is what we have:

*The large panels are 150cm x 86cm.
* The smaller panel underneath is actually quite tricky, as it turns out. The email said:
"Sheets for the label dimensions are 150 x 50 cm,

bent on the short side of 23.5 cm + 3 cm + 23.5 c"

 

It took me a moment and some close looking at the Belgrade exhibition photographs to quite understand what that meant, but this is what I have sent to the printer in Bosnia, who needed the sizes for stock ordering:

 

The panel looks bent over underneath the two back facing larger ones, and is bent at the bottom and one the sides.

 

Taking into account the folds in the metal, and because the graphics at the bottom of the panels will need to bleed off the page (and so fold under with the metal), the folds are going to have to be accounted for in the art board set up of the panels. This makes is 156cm x 97cm in total. I've emailed this to the printer and will see from his end if that sounds about right, then go ahead. 

Other document presets

 

The printer has confirmed other necessary, basic details for the print job:

* CMYK colour mode (I always ask this, because there have been times when a printer has preferred RGB);

* No outline of text needed - like this point, that's always a major hassle, especially if you need to edit something later on, but the text is no longer text!

* Bleed settings are standard 3mm;

* All images need to be set to correct dimensions and 300dpi.

*The photos will be printed on water resistant paper and then mounted onto alu panel (dibond) and laminated.


Once I hear back from the Bosnian printer, Julijan, regarding the print set up, designing will finally begin!