- Use a page layout program
- Create your layout at the final trim size
- Use master pages to maintain consistent placement of common elements
- Include .125″ bleed if image extends to edge of page
- Set colors in file as process only (CMYK)
- Send printer and screen fonts
- Send links and make sure images are 300-400 dpi and CMYK
- Check the file to make sure it is complete
- Proofread document before sending to printer
- Send 100% sized, final lasers marked with FPO information
- Compress your files as .sit or .zip on a Mac, or .zip on a PC
- Set your page layout file as imposed spreads
- Include a 1% dot unless you really mean it!
- Use hairline rules
- Send JPEG format images
- Store or embed images
- Send extra “old” versions of the file
- Place type within .125″ edge of the page
- Create clipping paths in the page layout program, instead use Photoshop with a flatness setting of 3
- Impose your file
- Trap your file
- Using a file naming structure that has a unique and meaningful name
- The ink densities of the colors specified in the file (max. ink density should be less than 320%)
- 8.5×11 tri-fold panel sizes are not equal: 3.625″(fold-in panel), 3.687″(middle panel), 3.687″(front panel)
- Rich black = 60% Cyan, 40% Magenta, 40% Yellow, 100% Black
- Scaling and rotating images in the page layout file
- Menu-stylized fonts
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