Daily Archives: August 17, 2005

Printer Breaker

We’re testing out some new potential poster printers at work, and I’ve been tasked with coming up with torturous files to see what makes ’em break. So I came up with an Illustrator file combining complex bezier curves, transparent fills and overlapping masks. It makes a lot of postscript printers cry for mercy, but I think it looks kind of cool.

There’s a PNG bitmap version of it in the extended entry…
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