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Design Hints and Tips to help you design your job
Scan or save colour and greyscale images at 300 dpi at 100% of the final size. |
Scanned line art needs to be no more than 800 dpi at 100% of the final size. |
Use a fill of white or 0%, not "none" in Quark picture boxes. Use "none" only if your illustration uses a clipping path. |
Add 3mm bleeds all round if your job needs to print right to the trimmed edge. |
Supply CMYK tiff or .eps images, not RGB. |
For large areas of black use a "rich black" for better results. We use 80C, 60M, 50Y, 100K (in full cyan, magenta etc.) |
Embed all fonts in your Microsoft Word or Publisher documents. |
Use the Acrobat PPD when saving PostScript (.ps) or print (.prn) files to distill to PDF. |
Don't use PDF Maker for making PDFs to print - they are rarely acceptable quality. Most other mainstream applications produce good-quality PDFs when "High Quality", "Print" or "Press" settings are used. |
If you are supplying a job on CD please also send a hard copy and a folded dummy of your job for checking. |
It's not necessary to do the imposition for us — even for business cards. Please just supply single pages set to the correct trim size (e.g. A4 on an A4 page, not an A3 page). |
Pictures with LZW compression cause problems - if you must use compression, use JPEG, but be aware that the more you compress the worse the picture will print. |
Don't reduce a photo or scan to less than 20% of the original size when placing in a page layout program. Open them in an image editing programme such as Photoshop and scale them to the correct size. |
Don't change any default trapping settings. Trapping is rarely a problem on our equipment. |
If your job uses spot colour leave them as spot colours rather than converting them to CMYK. Our equipment uses tailored lookup tables to accurately make these conversions on the fly. |
