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Printed drawings need more pixels; different way to save
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Printed drawings need more pixels; different way to save

Printed drawings need more pixels; different way to save

(OP)
Hi all,

Is there anyway to save drawings so they can be printed at a professional printers so that more pixels can be seen? The printer said that when printing, and after expansion of printed files, the drawings have lines, etc., and the printers are saying that we have to save them differentally.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rip


SolidWorks 2007
SP 4.0

RE: Printed drawings need more pixels; different way to save

How are you saving the image files for the printer and in which format?

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RE: Printed drawings need more pixels; different way to save

(OP)
Hi...

Thanks to ALL...I appreciate your efforts.

Rip

Thanks,

Rip


SolidWorks 2007
SP 4.0

RE: Printed drawings need more pixels; different way to save

Try saving as a PDF and having printer print the PDF.

PDF's recognize vector formatted lines, so scaling print does not result in loss of resolution.

One hitch: prior to SW 2006, drawings with shaded views printed to PDF as raster, not vector.  Only drawings with no shading were converted to PDF with vector format.

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