Test prints

I thought it would be very necessary to test out what my menus will print out like on just a standard printer. I wanted to check that it was physically easy to read and looked appealing to the eye.

I tested this on just a standard brothers printer that I own at home so hopefully the print will look a lot more better once professionally printed. This test is just on the front cover.

Below are the results.

As you can see the pattern on the front here is not visible at all, the opacity of the pattern was about 30% so in order to make it more visible I am going to bump up the opacity to about 50%.

Obviously when printing on a bulk standard printer it will cut off the edges. So that is not so much an issue as that when it comes to printing at a print shop it will come out as A3 and will then be trimmed from that format.

The print was also tested through an AI file so that may well be another reason as to that the files layers aren’t flattened until it is exported into a PDF. So I am going to make sure to print it from an PDF format.