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Creating A Document for Printing:

Read this before starting your publication.

Regardless of the type of program or system you are using the principles are the same. Creating print job requires this type of planning and these three elements to successfully use it in commercial printing or digital copying. To successfully print to production equipment we need all of these elements:

• Publication

• Graphics files

• Fonts

1. Build or start a folder. Call it your project. Example: C:\Mydocuments\July Project Start a publication and even before you enter one word into this publication save it to the above created folder. (brochure21.pub) saved in above folder.

2 .Start designing the document. Each time you want to insert a picture or logo (graphic file) save it to the above folder first and then place it into the publication.

If the program asks you if you want to “include this in your publication” say NO. Saying yes will unnecessarily bog down your computer.

3. When you are finished save a copy of your font or fonts to the folder.

4.Compress or zip the entire folder and drop it in our dropbox, or burn a CD and bring it to us. Some programs require special preparation. One such program is Microsoft Publisher.

7. Print one copy of the document you want printed. We will need to refer to it so that we know what the finished product should look like.

Other Issues:

Using Graphics: For raster images such as scanned art or digital pictures, high resolution (300dpi) graphics are best and should be saved in uncompressed TIFF (.tif) format.

Other graphics that are produced from digital cameras, such as .jpeg, sometimes work but must be converted to .tif before they are used. We can do this at additional charges or you can convert them in Adobe Photoshop or a similar program.

Vector graphics (such as those composed in programs like CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand) should be saved in EPS format.

“It looks good on my screen — why not on paper?”

Computer screens and internet files traditionally use 72dpi (very coarse resolution) Computer monitors make a picture look good but paper requires a higher standard. So if you download or copy a file from the Internet it may not be useful of attractive for your document.