If you are planning to order prints in the near future, you may need to check that your documents are in the correct format.
Here are some things you should take note of before you send your documents to the printers:
- Make sure your document is in PDF format. This can be done very easily yourself (or have your layout designer convert it after putting it together).
- Make sure you use a bleed on your page for content that is printed right near the edges. This will ensure your content and graphics don’t run off the edge of the page.
- Check that all of your images have been converted to CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) and are not RGB (Red Green Blue). This is a colour setting that your designer can check and convert within programs like Adobe InDesign as well as Photoshop.
- Take care when using “rich black” if your documents are to be printed digitally, as this could cause a mottled effect on the printout. Rather set your black to 100% in the settings, which will be sufficient for printing.
- Provide crop marks if your design is to be cut down to size, such as a brochure or a business card.
- Embed your fonts or convert them to outlines so that there won’t be problems down the line with uncommon fonts that your printers might not have.
- Supply high resolution images. Images for Print need to be at least 300dpi to ensure that they do not look pixelated in the final printed version.
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