DaiRees wrote:I don't really understand why but they can't use jpeg files to produce cut vinyl stickers. I think they need an outline only format called "vector" or something? I dunno, it's all beyond me
Rough visual explanation of why printers always want vector formats (or extremely high DPI bitmaps, usually TIFF format).
Imagine you want to print the words "Bitmap (jpeg)" in foot-high letters but you only supplied a bitmap image (JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc). The small version looks fine on your screen, but the enlarged version is what you'll end up with. Now, if you send it to the printer as a vector format, the nice smooth 'vector' is what you'll end up with.
Bitmap images revolve around pixels so become jagged ("pixelated") when enlarged or shown at a higher resolution (printers can often go into thousands of DPI resolution). Vector images don't - instead of saying 'this square is this colour, the next square is that colour, etc', they describe the image in terms of lines and curves. Most fonts are in vector format, which is why you can use big fonts without them looking jagged - unless you turn them into a bitmap by say putting some text into mspaint - in which case you end up with the above if you try to resize them
Hope that made sense.
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