DPI, PPI or LPI?

What is the relationship between DPI and PPI? What is LPI?

Complementing an article I posted at VectorTUTS+, I will try to give an in-depth explanation and describe the relationships between the Points per Inch and the Dots per Inch.

Also, for those dedicated to Prepress I will explain the LPI and how it affects the printing quality.

DPI

Dots Per Inch, AKA DPI, is measurement unit for the quantity of ink dots a Laser printer fits on a square inch. It is only useful when talking about Laser printing reproduction of your artwork.

The more DPIs does not necessary means the better the outcome.

A video wall commercial.

This long (52") commercial was designed for a local hotel spa.

After storyboarding the scenes and agreed with the client the general concept, AfterEffects was used to put the commercial together.

Some of the clips used are footage from product demos, others were filmed with a handycam. We only used one still. Vectors where designed at Illustrator CS3.

How to auto-number raffles and tickets with Print Merge

A step by step guide, of the use of Print Merge to auto-number your tickets.

Software: CorelDraw V9 (or newer)

Completion Time: 30'

Skill Level: Intermediate

This is a typical Print Merge case. In order to solve this, things you should consider are:

a) How many tickets you need?
b) How many will be printed on a sheet?
c) how many coupons will be on a ticket?

Say your design looks like this.

The size of this is 210mm x 74.25mm which means that you can fit four of them on an A4.