If you’re looking for some guidance on setting up your commercial printing project, or you need help creating a PDF suitable for printing, you’ll find those instructions on this page. There are also many short tip articles that cover common issues faced by designers as well as simple suggestions for adding pizzazz or avoiding pitfalls.
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Prepress Guides
Common Preflight Terms
How To Package From InDesign
Prepress Requirements
Publisher Instructions for Bleed
What We Check
Prepress Tips
22 Shades of Gray
22 Shades Better
Actual vs. Effective Resolution
Back To Black
Bleeds
Changing Channels
Clear Overrides
Crop Marks
Crop Marks: The Sequel
Crossing The Border
Digital Image Types
Gray Matters
Gutter Jumps
Heavy Metal
How to Build an Ad
Improving Photo Resolution
Master Pages
Monitor vs. Proof vs. Printed
Naming Images
Perfect Bound Cover
Reverse Text
RGB vs. CMYK
Spiral Bound
Spot Color vs. CMYK
Text in Photoshop
The Registration Swatch
They Printed Happily Ever After
Vector vs. Raster