Boppa

Gotcha... the weird thing is... back in december, I sent the print shop (by accident) two cards in .psd. They converted it to pdf and printed test proofs for me to review. They looked beautiful. So i assumed that exporting to pdf with AD would work ok... but then realized the high rez png was being dumbed down. The print shop wants file as 300dpi.

Thank you for your reply Arnaud. I am actually not printing from AD. I am simply assembling the artwork from my commissioned artist onto kids greeting cards template that I created in AD. Then exporting to .pdf which the Printing Company requested. The artboard is set to cmyk as well. The above pictures are from my computer screen using a snippet tool. The strange thing is that if I do the same thing in AI, when saving to .pdf... it is also somewhat dumbed down. However, when I export to .psd in AI, everything is perfect. I was just hoping that AD would do this effectively, as it is much easier program to use.

I love using Affinity Designer but I recently discovered that when I take a high resolution .png file and drag it into my artboard, the color depth & vibrance and resolution is dumbed down. This was only just discovered when I had proofs printed at the printer company. Please see photo comparison below. Image on left is original, on right is in AD. I am wondering if I have some settings wrong when creating my artboard? Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks Chris for your reply. Yes, I believe there was a post earlier today from a photographer with the same issue and I think this feature is important and would be very helpful. For now I'll have to use AI to make this work. I do like using Affinity though and would like to be able to use it exclusively. Here's the link to his issue...

I am using Affinity Designer to create greeting cards. I apologize if I missed something but I am not seeing where to adjust the print area when printing to my printer. I am using a Canon Pro100 to print cards and the card design is not printing centered on the paper... so when I fold the card the image on the inside compared to the outside is overlapping. When using AI CS6, the print dialog box has and adjustment section where I can adjust the image print area... example X = .63" Y = .38". Adjusting these values will allow me to center the design. Is there a way to do this on AD 1.6? which I am currently using?