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Prepress Guidlines
To ensure the fastest possible processing
time for your printing jobs, please make sure you have not skipped
any of the steps below. Skipping any of the following may cost you
extra time and money.
Pre-press
steps:
- Margins are set as follows: color
prints up to tabloid size (11 inches by 17 inches) need .25
inch margins on all sides; poster prints up to 3 feet wide need
1.5 inch margins on both sides; printing press documents up
to tabloid size need a .25 inch margin on one edge, which must
be the smaller dimension (e.g. a .25 inch margin on one of the
8 inch edges for letter (8 inch by 11inch) paper.
- Ensure that the document size settings
in the file are accurate.
- Any partitions (for folding, cutting
etc) are set accurately.
- Bleeds extend at least 1/8" beyond
the publication's size.
- Images are all high resolution (300
dpi).
- Make a printout of the final document
as you would like it to appear, at 100% size if possible.
Files to
include:
- A copy of each image used—even
those that are included and not linked—preferably as TIFF
or EPS
- All fonts used in your project, including
fonts used in any EPS images. On a Macintosh font files can
be found in the Fonts folder inside your System Folder. On a
PC truetype fonts have a .ttf extension and are in your \windows\system
folder, postscript fonts have a .pfm extension and are probably
found in your \psfonts\pfm folder.
Supported
formats:
- Adobe Pagemaker
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
- QuarkXPress (Macintosh only)
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
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