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Submitting
Files to Community Publications
Applications
Community Publications
can accept your printing projects on CDs, Zips (both 100 or 250),
Jaz, floppy, or send using the internet on our FTP site (see below).
We support the following software applications:
P = PC/Windows M = Mac
- Pagemaker
P/M
- InDesign
P/M
- Quark Xpress
P/M
- Acrobat
P/M
- Illustrator
P/M
- Photoshop
P/M
- Stuffit
Deluxe
All trapping
is done with our TrapPro Software. The is no need to build spreads
of any kind.
PREFLIGHT
CHECKLIST:
Document
- Unused items
on the pasteboard should be removed
- Remove any
unused colors and make sure all color is CMYK or PMS not RGB.
- Send us single
pages only, not printer spreads.
Fonts
- Make sure
all fonts are included with the document. Use Postscript fonts
instead of Truetype.
- Use the printer
font for bold and italic, avoid doing this from the style menu
- Multi-Master
Fonts are not always dependable
Images
- Bitmap Images
should be saved as CMYK ..eps or .tif format
- Illustrator
files should be saved with compatible gradients and version 6.0
- Try not to
nest .eps files
- Unused Alpha
Channels and Paths should be removed
- Scanned Tones
should be at 300 DPI
- Scanned Line
Art should be at 600 DPI
- Make sure
color images are CMYK or PMS, not RGB.
- Quark users
should not use the Fit to Window keyboard shortcut
Bleeds
- Make sure
bleeds extend 1/8 inch (.125”) past the page trim
Page Size
- Should represent
the final printed size
- The page
size of a project should be correctly relayed to your Service
Agent
Color
- Colors should
be CMYK builds and Pantone Colors for the spot definitions
- White in
documents and .eps files should be defined with 0Y 0M 0C 0K
- Picture Boxes
in Quark should be set to none
Names
- Should not
include any special characters and end in .tif or .eps
- , .. : :
/ \ ! ? should not be used, it causes conflicts in our Imposition
Equipment
Proofs
- Use the collecting
options in the program your job was created
- Composite
and separated Lasers should be sent - (Very important so we can
match our output to yours)
Collecting
the Job
- Make sure
you send all the files needed to print your job
- Be careful
with fonts and graphics in nested eps files
- Use the reports
in Quark and PageMaker to help gather missing elements
- Quark and
Freehand users should use the collect for output function
- PageMaker
users should use the Save for Service Provider plug in
REMEMBER YOUR
JOB WILL BE DELAYED UNTIL WE HAVE MISSING FILES OR FONTS
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