Jolla or sailfish Logo on xperia phones

answered 2017-11-27 02:37:03 +0200

Cmdr_Zod
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updated 2018-01-20 02:29:22 +0200

If you don't want to read the full story, here is a 120pixel high PNG with the new Sailfish OS logo for Brother P-touch:

SailfishOS_logo-compressed-120px-slim_fonts.png

You can print this on 18mm tape (for example TZe-145) on a device like the P-touch 2730 using ptouch-print

You can also print it on 24mm tape, most printers can only print a 8 additional pixels height on 24mm (The exception are printers for 36mm tape), if you want to use those additional 8 pixels, I suggest you add a bit more space between the logo and the text (I put them closer together to make the end result a bit larger).

If you want to print it on smaller tape, It is probably easiest to cut it in half and print the text and the logo separately.

Old Logo

Sailfish-OS-Logo-old-120px.png

Jolla-Logos:

This one is rotated to make most use of the available Space on 18mm tape

jolla-logo-rotated-120px.png

If you print on non-transparent tape, the rotation may not look to good, therefore this one is not rotated:

jolla-logo-120px.png

If you need something else, tell me, I may take the time to create it.

Jolla once had a selection of different logos to chose from, If you got a file with the other logos, I am interested in it.

This is how I developed this:

For those interested in the P-touch attempt, I quickly tried it on Linux using the Software ptouch-print and a scaled down logo, this is how my try on 24mm tape looks like:

As you see, there is still room for improvement. Basically, the source image is not allowed to be higher than 128 pixels (for 24mm tape), and it must be pure black and white (gray areas get lost, the label printer is monochrome only).

The topmost image had to much gray areas and has therefore some missing parts.

For the second image, the logo was moved nearer to the text to make the end result a bit larger. After scaling it down, the image was sharpened heavily to get rid of gray ares and have thicker lines. Unfortunately, the sharpening leads to some kind of "artifacts" on the letters.

The third image again had to much gray areas due to scaling.

The result doesn't meet my expectations (yet). If someone is better with gimp (or other software), I am happy to get the logo in pure black and white version without ugly artifacts, and little space between the text and the logo. If I manage to improve it myself, I will of course provide it.

Update 20171129 I have tried the "P-Touch Editor" software from Brother in the meantime (on 18mm white on transparent tape), it doesn't do a better job at scaling. Especially the letters look bad, they are fuzzy, probably because of dithering used in the process of scaling.

Also, 18mm provides almost the same amount of usable space, it looks like the printer (at least my model) is limited to 128 vertical points on 24mm tape (with some margin on the top and bottom of the tape), while the 18mm tape is limited to 120 vertical points with almost no margin.

Description of the different prints starting at the topmost:

1. Black on white, 24mm, printed with P-touch Editor, note ugly fonts

2. Black on fluorescent yellow, 24mm, as seen in first image

3. White on transparent, 18mm, looks like ptouch-print was smarter than I though and printed it tranparent on white due to the black part in the image.

4. White on transparent, 18mm, this time I got the colors right. I will probably clean it up a little bit by hand and then publish the image.