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Superior POD templates & turnaround times

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Wed, 11/23/2011 - 09:17
disaac
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I am considering creating a couple of prototype decks from SuperiorPOD, but I don't know which template I should use.

I should probably mention that I am planning to use their "Custom Playing Card Deck - 54 Card Deck" package.

I have been using OpenOffice Draw for my own development work at home. I see that SPOD has file setup templates for Photoshop, Illustrator, PDF, PostScript, and PNG.

Would any of these be compatible with OODraw? I believe that I did import one of them, but it converted the sizes of the document as well, which I don't think would be optimal.

Also, does anyone here have experience with what their turn-around time would be for let's say 3 of the 52-card decks? If I submitted the docs in the next week, would I possibly have them by Christmas?

Thanks all, and happy holidays.
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Wed, 11/23/2011 - 11:35
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Louard
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I don't have experience with

I don't have experience with Superior POD or much with OODraw but as far as graphics go what I can say is, if you have to export to a raster(pixel) graphic format I suggest PNG as it is a lossless compression format and to export at a dpi of at least 300dpi so the print job comes out nice and crisp.

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Thu, 11/24/2011 - 00:38
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On standard pod orders Jeff

On standard pod orders Jeff has promised 2 weeks or less in the past.

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Thu, 11/24/2011 - 17:21
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i submitted an order on saturday

MatthewAlan wrote:
On standard pod orders Jeff has promised 2 weeks or less in the past.

I submitted a 90 card order on saturday, no word on anything, other than the order number, but yea I have no idea 2 weeks isnt so bad...

OP, i would go and get a copy of Photoshop, it is a great investment to have or have somebody that has photoshop set everything up for you.

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Sun, 11/27/2011 - 11:03
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Friends don't let friends buy Photoshop

Unless you're made of money, I would suggest PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS instead. It has about half the bells and whistles, but it does everything I need it to do for $100. You can get new copies on ebay for much less if you are willing to get the next to last version [I used PSE II for years when v.6 was out and it worked great!]. It works for both Mac and IBM. Can't recommend it highly enough!

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Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:30
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JaffetC
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Traz wrote:Unless you're made

Traz wrote:
Unless you're made of money, I would suggest PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS instead. It has about half the bells and whistles, but it does everything I need it to do for $100. You can get new copies on ebay for much less if you are willing to get the next to last version [I used PSE II for years when v.6 was out and it worked great!]. It works for both Mac and IBM. Can't recommend it highly enough!

Actually, Elements isn't the best of tools, like I said before in another post. Buying the software is an investment in your self. While there is wisdom in using mediocre tools in order to achieve a final end result with out paying a ton of money for. There also comes a time when people will take you seriously based on the tools that you use. You dont expect to go into a Automechanic shop and expect them to tell you that the only tool they use is a Phillips screw driver.

Also, there is no such thing IBM anymore... Simply Mac OSX, Windows OS, or Linux OS... Again, get professional software in order to do professional work. All investments take money and time in order to output some future profit. If money is Time and time is money then no matter what you will be spending something in order to produce something else.

Before somebody asks I use, Photoshop CS5.5, Illustrator CS5.5, Indesign CS5.5 Painter 11, Sketchbook, Poser, and Illustudio so as to have enough flexibility in order to manipulate colors to the best possible outputs. But overall I spend more time using Photoshop than any other software. I've also used Elements and for a long while it had only a small amount of features worth looking into, but now a days why get the "lite" version when just getting Photoshop CS will do what you want. I've also used GIMP at one point, and its fine but again, Photoshop once you understand how it works makes everything really simple without much headache. It gives you different color options which is great when you have to send it to a printer that uses different types of color options.

the world doesnt just work on simple CMYK and RGB, there is also the SWOP's, the sRGB, Apple sRGB, etc... this is one of the reason why photoshop is so good, because the color profiles it provides helps the designer work better with the printer.

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