Product Preview and Design Tool View in Stickers and Puzzles are off.
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02-28-2022 05:01 AM
I ordered a puzzle where I was confused by the Preview and Design Tool Views being different and ended up with a puzzle that is also noticeably off too. Now I am seeing that the stickers have the same problem. Is anyone else seeing this problem?
Thanks,
Sandra
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03-01-2022 07:27 AM
Hi @samack,
Sorry to hear about these issues. I can't replicate them on my end. The design tool view and product view are lining up correctly for the design tool view and product preview.
Could you send on some examples of each and we can take a look?
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03-01-2022 11:19 AM
Here is the puzzle I ordered. The more I think about it the more I think it is the normal bleed but for some reason I was just going with the preview and thinking that meant it would be ok. I should know better than that though. Thanks for checking in with me,
Sandra
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03-02-2022 05:49 PM - edited 03-02-2022 05:55 PM
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03-02-2022 08:36 PM
The top pic is your end product. The middle is how it appears in the design tool. The bottom pic has a white background added to simulate the look of the raw puzzle material that would be showing where there is transparency/no image in the design.
It appears to have printed right at the red bleed line. You can see that the left & right photos are not "cut-off". It's only the center photo that gives that appearance because it's positioned higher than the bleed line so there's transparency below it that translates to the naked product material showing which results in the "white strip" our eyes see.
This is interesting and I appreciate seeing your actual product photo here. We're told to keep everything important inside the green safe line, that the blue print line is their target for cutting/printing, and that to avoid any white edges, be sure to extend backgrounds to the red bleed line. But on this particular product we can see from your photo we don't have to "waste" all that space between the green & red lines since it printed all the way to the red. Hmmm.
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03-03-2022 02:08 AM - edited 03-03-2022 02:52 AM
Thank you for responding. Yes, I learned an important lesson to make sure I go all the way to the red line with the design even when it looks good on the preview. I think I already knew that but just got confused. I was rushed because of Christmas and getting COVID over the holidays. Then several family members got it. Then on the sticker I posted there is an element outside the green line that shows fine on the preview. I just thought maybe that was a technical problem, but I now see that I should have made that element much wider to extend well over onto the green line. It just seemed to me that the preview was more off that I thought it should be though. Especially on the sticker. Maybe but I guess not. There was a customer that said she wasn't happy with the sticker but the problem wasn't that the element did not print. It was about the names not being dark enough. Not enough contrast. But on the preview the names and the contrast seems to be fine. Oh and I can't figure out how to post imagines without making a product out of them. So that is why I made the poster to show the puzzle and how it printed. But I see maybe you know how to post the pictures without making a product. How did you do that? Thanks in advance for your help. Sandra
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03-03-2022 04:29 AM - edited 03-03-2022 04:31 AM
I am glad this post was helpful to you. Thanks so much for your response. And reminders to be careful extending background all the way to the red lines. However I don't see the red lines or blue lines in my design tool. But even so I need to remember to extend to the edge. Also should I be concerned that my location is attached to these images?
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03-03-2022 06:37 AM
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03-03-2022 12:59 PM
No. I downloaded your above image and checked its properties from both Windows and Photoshop and there isn't a single scrap of meta data attached to it so you're good, no worries.
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03-03-2022 04:42 PM
Thank you so much! That was so very kind of you to check for me!
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03-03-2022 02:56 AM
Maybe this isn't a technical problem? Should it be under another category for people to see what happens when you don't extend your design all the way to the bleed line? Or delete it? Whatever you think.
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03-03-2022 07:23 AM
Thanks Mark! I didn't know about that option!
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03-01-2022 11:10 AM
Example of a sticker that looks off to me I don't know maybe this is a normal bleed allowance. I just thought it was off.
Thanks for looking into it,
Sandra

