Graphics Services
Art and Illustration
While not an art studio per se, E&C has generated thousands
of technical renderings, charts, graphs, schematics, and other graphics
for books and magazines. We work with a contract studio that provides excellent
art at unbeatable prices. They can take your rough sketches and turn them
into professional renderings. Just send us a sample, and we'll give you
a price.
Other
- Scanning. If you aren't set up to convert your hard copy images
to digital files, we can do that for you. We can provide true optical resolution
up to 4800 x 4800 dpi. Beware of local print shops and office supply stores
that save your files in PDF format. The standard for commercial printing
is encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and to a lesser extend JPG. We can provide
scans in any standard graphic format. Image modes include bitmapped, 8-bit
and 16-bit grayscale, and 24-bit and 48-bit color (RGB or CMYK). Note:
we can handle any paper size up A4 (8.27 x 11.69 inches). Price: $2.00
each plus shipping costs.
- File Translation. If your artwork exists but is in the wrong
format, we can probably convert it to whatever the printer/publisher wants.
Let us know what you have, how many, and what you need. Prices start at
$2.00 per file but drop considerably with large, batch-processible quantities.
- Clean-Up and Touch-Up. Photos and other images often can be
restored or greatly improved with digital processing. We can fix color
balance and contrast, remove creases and spots, and so on. This can cost
as little as $1.00 per image if standard batch processing does the trick.
For more labor-intensive work, such as removing cracks from old photos,
the cost is $35.00 per hour. Please note that we generally cannot do much
with low-resolution images (i.e., anything below about 200 dpi). Resolution
can often be improved by as much as 50 percent, but anything more than
that is likely to result in distortions and other unsatisfactory effects.
