Artwork checking for sign making
Sign work runs on customer logos, and customer logos arrive as web images. Prepta identifies the likely source of the artwork, tells you immediately whether it can carry the finished size, and asks for the vector original when it cannot.
Customer file not ready for production?
Typical profile
- Colour
- CMYK
- Minimum resolution
- 100 ppi
- Bleed
- 10 mm
- Cut contour
- Not required
- Transparency
- Flagged, never changed
What goes wrong
Logos taken from a website
A 240 px PNG from the customer’s own site, often with a white edge baked in from a transparent background.
Photos of the existing sign
A phone photo, taken at an angle, in mixed lighting, offered as the artwork.
Vector expected, raster supplied
The order requires cut vinyl and the file is a flat image with no usable outline.
Colour matching by description
“The same blue as our van” with no spot colour reference in the file.
What Prepta does
Likely source reported with confidence
Web asset, camera photo or design application, so you know what conversation to have before opening the file.
Resolution measured at the finished size
The effective ppi of the supplied logo at the size you will print it, against your profile minimum.
Vectorization never assumed
Where an outline cannot be derived unambiguously, Prepta requests the original rather than tracing a guess.
Colour references flagged
Unnamed colours that need a spot definition are raised before production, not after.
Common questions — sign making
Can a logo from a website be printed at sign size?
Sometimes, if effective DPI at the finished size meets your profile minimum. Prepta measures it at that size and asks for the vector original when it falls short.
Does Prepta auto-trace logos for sign cutting?
No. Where an outline is ambiguous, Prepta escalates for confirmation rather than guessing a cut path.
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