Prepress Tutorials & Preflight File Preparation
Ensure your files print right by preparing them properly before they go to the printer. Avoid common prepress problems with fonts and graphics using these checklists, guidelines, and prepress tutorials.
Preflight Checklist - Avoid Printing Delays With This Preflight Checklist
Not all items on this example preflight checklist are required for every job or every printer.However, failure to include all items required by your service provider or failure to properly prepare digital files or camera ready artwork can result in both time delays and create addtiional costs.
Not all items on this example preflight checklist are required for every job or every printer.However, failure to include all items required by your service provider or failure to properly prepare digital files or camera ready artwork can result in both time delays and create addtiional costs.
Sending Files to Your Service Bureau or Printer
When you send a digital file out for film or printing more goes along than just your PageMaker or QuarkXPress document. Describes what you would normally send to your service provider.
When you send a digital file out for film or printing more goes along than just your PageMaker or QuarkXPress document. Describes what you would normally send to your service provider.
Sending Fonts to Your Service Bureau or Printer
Service bureaus cite the number one problem when outputting files is the fonts. The receive files with missing fonts, corrupt fonts, or the wrong fonts. If you want to avoid delays and errors on your next project, take the extra steps to ensure that you send the right fonts with your file.
Service bureaus cite the number one problem when outputting files is the fonts. The receive files with missing fonts, corrupt fonts, or the wrong fonts. If you want to avoid delays and errors on your next project, take the extra steps to ensure that you send the right fonts with your file.
Sending Graphics to Your Service Bureau or Printer
There are dozens of graphics file formats but only two -- EPS and TIFF are the standards for commercial high resolution printing. Beyond file type other graphics issues that can jeopardize your printing project are color, compression, complexity, and completely missing images.
There are dozens of graphics file formats but only two -- EPS and TIFF are the standards for commercial high resolution printing. Beyond file type other graphics issues that can jeopardize your printing project are color, compression, complexity, and completely missing images.
Build a Better Digital File From the Ground Up
Ellen Wixted addresses the planning of your document from start to finish to insure proper imagesetter output for your files. Originally written for PageMaker 6 and up, this is information that applies no matter what program you use.
Ellen Wixted addresses the planning of your document from start to finish to insure proper imagesetter output for your files. Originally written for PageMaker 6 and up, this is information that applies no matter what program you use.
Surprise! Your Print Job May Be Costing You Too Much
It's easy to get so caught up in the perfect design that we have trouble seeing alternatives to the masterpiece we've created. However, sometimes "just a little" tweak can save a lot of money (and time and frustration) without sacrificing the integrity of the piece.
It's easy to get so caught up in the perfect design that we have trouble seeing alternatives to the masterpiece we've created. However, sometimes "just a little" tweak can save a lot of money (and time and frustration) without sacrificing the integrity of the piece.
Preparing for Print
Tom Arah covers graphics, fonts, postscript, and other aspects of getting your files ready for commercial printing.
Tom Arah covers graphics, fonts, postscript, and other aspects of getting your files ready for commercial printing.
Preparing Digital Prepress Files
Use these Extra Extra Graphics guidelines in preparing files. Includes comments on why you should or should not do certain tasks including imposition, color name matching, and include font files.
Use these Extra Extra Graphics guidelines in preparing files. Includes comments on why you should or should not do certain tasks including imposition, color name matching, and include font files.
Prepress Top Do's and Don'ts
Extra Extra Graphics covers bleeds, font styles, graphic formats, separations and other digital file prep tasks.
Extra Extra Graphics covers bleeds, font styles, graphic formats, separations and other digital file prep tasks.
Beginning with the end
Chuck Green details five steps for preparing desktop publishing files for commercial printing.
Chuck Green details five steps for preparing desktop publishing files for commercial printing.
Printing Tips for DTP People
"Tips on Getting Your Electronic Files Output the Way You Actually Intended"; Extensive list of tips and suggestions from Julian Foster.
"Tips on Getting Your Electronic Files Output the Way You Actually Intended"; Extensive list of tips and suggestions from Julian Foster.
Camera Ready Artwork Definition
What camera ready artwork means.
What camera ready artwork means.