Printing My Comic?

[SpookyLocker]

Hey so, recently me and my friends have been remastering my Comic for print. my dpi is 300 and it will mostly be black and white with greys as shading. Only color will be on the front cover. all the pages are in pixel size 800 by 1200 that way it will fit with Tapaz and Webtoon. I'm worried that 800 by 1200 is too small for normal manga size page. Any recommendations, really don't wanna start the process of remastering over unless I have too. also found these print sites any you would recommend! any info is helpful thanks!
My goal is to go to comic cons and sell copies as well as online sales

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[ninjashira]

So at 300 DPI (or PPI), that means there are 300 pixels per inch. Which means if your page is 1200 pixels high, it is only 4 inches high. Much too small for print.

You can try to increase the dimensions of your pages to print size, but you're going to encounter some pixelated and fuzzy unpleasant scaling problems which won't look good at all once it's printed.

Typically if you're planning on printing something, you create it at print size according to the printer's page dimensions, and scale it down to post on websites like Tapas and Webtoons.

Unfortunately, with what you currently have, I don't believe your pages can be printed at anything approaching good quality.

If/when you do get that sorted out, Mixam is a great printer, I've used them before for zines and anthologies with great results.

Best of luck!

[SpookyLocker]

So i chose A5 5.8 by8.3 with a 600 dpi and CMYK for coloring if i need it lol My question is where can i find The exact cut off lines? basically A5 deleter paper could use it as a guide

[DarkChibiShadow]

Printing comics that have been scanned are a whole other can of worms you're probably going to want to look into with some Googling. 600 DPI is better for black and white comics though, as I believe black and white comics need a higher DPI. (300 is standard for full color)

Most printers have templates you can use to start thinking about bleed! Here's a page I like in particular:
https://www.grekoprinting-comixwellspring.com/specifications-templates/

ninjashira is right though in saying what you currently have probably isn't suited for print. I would focus on other aspects of upgrading your comic making skills and set up before worrying about printing!
Don't be discouraged by this though, it takes a long time to be ready for printing and comic cons aren't really gonna be safe to go to for another few years anyways so like, use this time to maybe think about printing a shorter comic (about 20 pages) that has been made with printing in mind, so you can see how you like it before trying to remaster your pages.

Good luck!

[21stCenturyHero]

Have you tried Waifu2x?

[SpookyLocker]

what does it do exactly ? turn low quality art into Hd? or adjust the page size to manga quality A5

[21stCenturyHero]

It uses AI to create new pixels, thus upscaling your image! It's a bunch of Tech Stuff I don't really understand, but this slide explains a little better. But it offers both noise reduction AND upscalling.

[starry-sea]

im not op but my dumbass used too small of pages for my comic in the beginning so a lot of it is super small, definitely going to try this out. Thank you for posting it!!

[SpookyLocker]

lol Dude that was legit my biggest fear going into printing glad we found this

[Shanny8]

Me on a personal note: I stay away from Alterna...they were in that "comicsgate" mess some time back.

Basic rule- comic size is 7" x 10.82"(don't know what that translates to size wise in pixels)...color/resolution you wanna keep it at 300 dpi or higher(NO higher than 600 dpi though).

The 2 companies I've used to print my comics- Ka-Blam and Greko Printing(also known as Comix Well Spring). I love the interior stock that Ka-Blam prints on; their covers are pretty much that same type of stock, so nothing to bally-hoo about...Greko's price is a smidge cheaper than Ka-Blam; their basic interior stock isn't anything to write home about, but the cover stock- WOW!

I print my webcomic chapters through Greko to sell at conventions; I get a more glossier stock- which costs me a little more but I don't mind- I treat the printed version of my webcomic like a premium book...accompanied with the awesome cover stock that Greko does(and my page count), I get to sell the book for more than my other title- which I print through Ka-Blam.

Here's a few pics of my printed webcomic through Greko:

My other title printed through Ka-Blam:

Ka-Blam has a downloadable template in which you can use to format/size your pages- I use it on Photoshop to make sure my pages are correctly formatted before I send to print.

http://ka-blam.com/main/

Also also- companies like Ka-Blam & Greko are referred to as "POD"(print on demand) or digital printing(done by digital printing copiers). You can order as many as you need/like- from as little as 5 books to as many as 200. This method of printing differs from [traditional] offset printing(which is printed through large machines); the minimum amount you can order with offset printing is 1000(coz it costs that much to set up the machines and print plates).

[joannekwan]