Product Preview and Design Tool View in Stickers and Puzzles are off.

samack
Contributor II

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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Mark
Moderator
Moderator

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?

- Mark

- Mark

samack
Contributor II

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

samack
Contributor II
This is how the poster printed. Notice how the photo is cut off and there is white at the bottom where it should have been the photo all the way to the edge.  I looked at the preview and thought it would be ok cause it looked good on the preview.  I will know to make sure I have my photos going all the way to the edge from now on but the customers won't know to do that.  It will probably be confusing to them. Japanese Keisha Poster

ColsCreations
Honored Contributor II

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.

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 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.

@samack 

 

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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

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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Hey @samack,

Have you selected the guidelines option at the top of the design tool?image_2022-03-03_143640.png

 

 

 

- Mark

- Mark

ColsCreations
Honored Contributor II

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.

@samack 

 

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Thank you so much!  That was so very kind of you to check for me!

@ColsCreations 

samack
Contributor II

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.

samack
Contributor II

Thanks Mark!  I didn't know about that option!

samack
Contributor II

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