New article on chip labels for NEXGENs

[TenPercenter]

http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/cms_view_ ... php?aid=34

Very well written article for helping people who want to make lables for any chip with a 1" recessed center. Thanks Matthew, great job.

Ten

[FearItself]

Nice article. I wasn't even planning on doing anything with my chips but now I am inspired!

[lwestatbus]

This was a super article. Thanks for the referral. I'm struggling with the exact same issues (plus lack of artistic talent). See some of my earlier posts. I Also discovered the need for a 1.1" space for the label but Matthew's detailed description of both trials and solutions is really great.

[PocketRocket]

Struggling with printer creep issues with Sure Thing Office Labeler and having some misaligned labels on each sheet, I've resorted to using 1.125" inch square images which pretty much butts each image against the other with no gutter. It uses a tad more toner, but keeps images aligned once the printer has been calibrated and there are no concerns about having enough bleed. I generally use a 600 DPI uncompressed TIFF file which calculates out to a 675x675 pixel image. One word of warning though, this can generate a huge file size for a 1" image. As an example, a full colored photographic background image created in Photoshop, without flattening layers, measured out to about 7MB. For files with text or graphics on a white background, I add a layer that has nothing but a 3 pixel black inner outline (Stroke effect in Photoshop) to give the image the 1.125 dimension. The outline will just print on the label sheet in the gutters, but will not appear on the labels themselves.

Update: Seems that I miscalculated the size of the overall image. It should be 1.107 or 664 pixels square if you use the 3/8" (.375) margins, using a 600 DPI image. For 300 DPI, it would be 332 pixels square.