Any suggestions for delivery method?

[outsider]

Hi again,

What is the best way to send this file to print?

Could the printers use the PDF version?

They need this with all crop marks, bleeds etc. so I figured exporting pdf should be OK?

How do you send your documents to print?

Thanks

[eugenetyson]

PDF all the way... unless otherwise stated that is.

Print settings:

I hear a lot of people say that PDF X1a is the best way to send it. It's not though, it's a good standard but I don't use it.

I just downsample images above 450 dpi to 300 and text to 1200 dpi and that's it.

I convert colours to Euroscale Coated V2, unless spot colours are being used. You can go into Ink Manager and convert All Spot Colours to Process, but don't if you need the spot colours.

But yeh, PDF is the way forward. But again, contact your Printers and ask them what they want. They may well want a disk with all the images, InD files and etc on it, including fonts.

You can package the file if you're doing this. But you probably already know that.

File>Package

Eugene

[Lukas Engqvist]

PDFx1a is the safest but you will need to know what you are printing as colours will be different in Newsprint, uncoated or glossy papper. Ask your printer what recomendations they have, usually you will find they have a joboptions file and appropriate ICC profiles. If they don't know what they are they are a "you get what you get" printer and you wil probably get varying results depending on what day you sent your job ;-P

Lukas

[Lukas Engqvist]

PDFx4:2007 is the latest standard and will be the best oprion but all printers are not ready for it yet. It allows live transparency RGB and CMYK and Spot colours all for an educated printer to have your unadulterated design to optimise for his/her printing conditions, but as I said talk to the next person in the chain :)