Preparation techniques of printed documents

Now we have a common page layout software: Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Microsoft Publisher and so on. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw and other patterns are created to support the ideal choice. To ensure print quality, you must first determine the printing service providers use the software and plug-ins with your version.

    Send fonts

    Even using a common font, such as: Times, Helvetica and Palatino, etc., you need to put them together with the documents sent to the printers. Fonts and developers with the software version change, there would be a TrueType, Postscript and OpenType three types. In the live parts to the pre-press department, they must put the appropriate font is also sent in the past. Avoid TrueType, Postscript or OpenType font format mixing. If you are making an EPS file containing the text, but did not convert the text to curves, then we should also be sent to the font used in printing. Use a font similar to Suitcase or FontReserve management program can help you better organize and collect fonts for the printing. Can not not use special fonts, try to choose fonts in any font, or when you import the file when printing software, and some text will change. Print service providers and individual users to the same use with the software developers to sign an agreement, and also have a checking, editing and printing any of the qualifications of an Adobe font.

    Share or copy the font beyond the approved scope, or printing without the eligibility to use a font, the output contains the original font files, are illegal.

    Notes relating to images

    Send all the images used in the file copy, if conditional, but also to send a layered Photoshop file. This allows printing in the last minute before printing the document to make the necessary changes. Ensure the validity of all links and timeliness. The most important thing is to create a single layer on the same image element. Send in the printing industry standard used in the production format: EPS (Encapsulated Postscript), TIF (TIF) and JPEG (Joint Photographers Expert Group). Do not send in a print production environment can not be supported file formats: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), BMP (bitmap) and WMF (Windows Metafile) and so on. Only need to provide your project involves printing documents, images and fonts on it.

    Resolution and ink coverage

    And finished in the same case size, grayscale and CMYK should be 300dpi resolution map around; and black and white images (bitmaps) and resolution among the best in the 800-1200dpi. In the darkest areas, gray ink coverage can not exceed 90% -95%, and in the use of non-coated printing paper, ink coverage should be shaded at 80% -85%. When coated and uncoated paper for printing the time, CMYK image of the ink coverage may not exceed 320% and 300%. For example, if you printed on coated paper, 85% blue, 75% of the product, 75% yellow and 85% black, then the total ink coverage is 320%.

    Document

    Should be cut in accordance with the print size to organize files, each page should be left bleeding 0.0125 in.