Where do you get the program to printout marquees?

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Where do you get the program to printout marquees?
Im looking to do a couple for fun. Is it just a setting I redo for the printer OR a program I need to download? Link?


What is the better color sticker paper for the marquees?
 
Any graphics program will work. Best advice- don't print out your own marquees. :)

Seconded... don't print your own.

#1 I don't think you will find color sticker paper in the dimensions you would need for a marquee

#2 Even if you do it will look terrible. Stickered printer paper wouldn't transmit light properly and look cloudy and muddled.
 
Any graphics program at all. But, printing it out is going to be tough. It's going to look like crap on a home inkjet. Not only that, but you have to find paper that's large enough, and get it to go through the printer...

I did one on the big color plotter at work - it was passable, but not great. You really want something higher quality than that. If you get a design you like, you can take it to someplace like Kinko's and have it printed. You don't need sticker paper - regular paper is passable, but again, tends to look muddy. Kinko's can print on a shiny photo paper that comes out better, I've seen some pretty nice looking ones done like that. Instead of using adhesive paper, just sandwich the printout between thin sheets of plexi.

-Ian
 
I m new to some of these programs. I have MS PAINT. Will that work?

While MS PAINT technically qualifies as a graphics program, it's not terribly flexible. It will, however, allow you to open a file and print it out - and yes, it'll work. That's what I used to print out a marquee at work. If you have a graphic file that's already created, you need only open it and print it.

If you want to do any graphic editing, you'll need something a bit more powerful. There's a wonderful free one called "The Gimp".

-Ian
 
Gimp has a history of having horrible print features and functionality. I generally work my graphics in Gimp and then save to a loss-less format and then open in Irfanview (also free) for proper print controls.
 
Where do you get the program to printout marquees?
Im looking to do a couple for fun. Is it just a setting I redo for the printer OR a program I need to download? Link?


What is the better color sticker paper for the marquees?

The best program to use is illustrator, Photoshop, corral draw. I use all three of them for my personal art that I do. Doesn't matter which version but one of those. Illustrator and corel draw is better if your good at drawling and recreate artwork in vector form. You don't loose resolution if you want to blow image up and file is pretty small compared to Photoshop files. If you use photoshop make sure you use high res pic or create it in no more than 300 dpi. Wide formate printers only reads at 150, I don't know about silk screen stuff what they need it at. And try to make it to size in Photoshop if all possible. Bad part I'd you file can be pretty big but well worth it. Then I take to sign shop and have them print if off for me. Most wide format printers will take eps, psd, jpg, tiff, etc.

Hope this helps
 
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