help going from design to output for printer

[jfiscus]

When you are just printing an area like a fender only:
You can create a clipping mask in illustrator and save a new file as "front curbside fender" and just print that file.
Or in photoshop you can flatten and crop the document size to that area only and save a new file.

If you are printing the whole side of a vehicle you will create your finished document of the whole side with bleed (2-3" is usual, depends a LOT on the vehicle) and allow the RIP software that you use to tile the panel.
Use a .75"-1" overlap on panels and figure out which material will give you the best yield for the tiles you can create.
In the RIP it is a good idea to have it "flip every other tile" to be sure of color consistency between panels.

 

[texascamoman]

When you are just printing an area like a fender only:
You can create a clipping mask in illustrator and save a new file as "front curbside fender" and just print that file.
Or in photoshop you can flatten and crop the document size to that area only and save a new file.

If you are printing the whole side of a vehicle you will create your finished document of the whole side with bleed (2-3" is usual, depends a LOT on the vehicle) and allow the RIP software that you use to tile the panel.
Use a .75"-1" overlap on panels and figure out which material will give you the best yield for the tiles you can create.
In the RIP it is a good idea to have it "flip every other tile" to be sure of color consistency between panels.

OK I do understand how to do the panes in my rip program and that helps to know i can do it that way. I just figured that it was more common to do it in the design software.