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Your One-Stop Digital Resource Center
Here in our Digital Resource Center you will find handy links to our FAQs and to our detailed answers to your questions about submitting your job online, graphics applications and formats supported, and to detailed information about the preparation of digital files for high quality color printing.
Here are quick answers to our most frequently asked questions. You will also find helpful links here to more detailed information if you should need it.
In this section we provide you with all the help that you might need to prepare, collect, and submit your files for printing. Below you will find links to both general information as well as more detailed application specific instructions concerning all major graphics programs and on a variety of other print-related subjects.
You will also find helpful articles about subjects such as Reducing Your Printing Costs and many other electronic design and general file production issues.
There's even a handy expanded glossary of Graphic Arts and Printing industry terminology.
If you don't find the answer that you were looking for here don't hesitate to call our PrePress department and we'll be happy to help you with any questions you may have or with any other issues that you you need help resolving.
We can supply you with ready-made digital templates for most common print and publication types, sizes, and folding styles. Please contact us directly if you don't find what you need here and we'll be happy to get a custom template out to you ASAP.
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Help with Submitting Your Digital Files for Printing
In this section we are hoping to p
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Common File Prepration Pitfalls
Listed below are the most common erro
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by Ken Black
The most important part of this design hinges on the alignment of th
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What are Bleeds, and Why Do I Need Them?
Bleed is the industry term f
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Digital File Checklist: Before Submitting Your Files . . .
Before you
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Collecting & Submitting Your Files for Printing
The last step in
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Submitting Your Job Using PDF
All versions of Adobe Acrobat PDF are s
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Managing & Collecting Your Macintosh Fonts
One of the most common
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Installing the Adobe Acrobat or PDF Job Options File
Adobe Acrobat Di
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Managing & Collecting Your Windows Fonts
One of the most common m
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Microsoft Publisher Tips
All versions of Publisher from 2000 to 200
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QuarkXPress Tips
All versions of QuarkXPress are supported for both A
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Adobe InDesign Tips
All versions of InDesign are supported for both
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Adobe Illustrator Tips
All versions of InDesign are supported for bot
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Adobe Photoshop Tips
All versions of Adobe Photoshop are supported fo
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CorelDraw Tips
Corel Draw is supported for both the Apple Macintosh a
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Corel PHOTO-PAINT Tips
All versions of Corel PHOTO-PAINT are supporte
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FreeHand Tips
All versions of Macromedia FreeHand are supported for b
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Microsoft Word Tips
We cannot guarantee that files created in Microso
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CMYK or RGB Color?
Most graphics software programs give you the choic
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Adobe PageMaker Tips
Although PageMaker is no longer Adobe's premier
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Explaining Digital Image Resolution, Effective Resolution and
How They Affect the Appear
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Graphics Applications That We Support
Below is a list of the most frequently used appli
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Adding Custom Page or Paper Sizes to Windows Applications 3
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How to Build a Presentation Folder Using Our Templates
Presentation f
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Monitors, On-Screen Color, and Color Reproduction
The problem of color monitors, on-scr
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Folding Your Job
Folding Styles and Dimensions
Getting your job's fold dimens
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Decimal Conversion for Art Majors: Using Decimal X and Y Coordinates for Increased Accuracy
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An Expanded Glossary of Graphic Arts and Printing Industry Terminology Pt. 1
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M (Megabyte) - one million bytes.
Machine glazed (MG) - paper with a hi
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An Expanded Glossary of Graphic Arts and Printing Industry Terminology Pt. 2
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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A/W - an abbreviation for A
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How to Reduce Your Company's Printing Costs
by Clarke Blacker, Prepress Manager<
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Getting Your Publication Ready for Design and Production
by Karen Tibbetts, Customer
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13 Ways to Prevent Common Printing Problems, or . . .
A Chain Saw Can Carve a St
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While not intended as professional level page layout program it, is possible to create printable
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Downloadable File Layout Templates
We are supplying PDF layouts of ou
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Brochure Templates
Brochures can be described as being a single-sheet, p
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Newsletter Templates
Newsletters are essentially the same thing as Brochures but may al
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Catalog, Calendar & Booklet Templates
Catalogs, Calendars and Booklets are similar
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Flyer & Sell Sheet Templates
Flyers and Sell Sheets are similar to Brochures and ar
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Postcard Templates
While postcards are fairly straightforward pieces it is very importa
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Rack Card Templates
Rack cards are single standard-size sheets printed on either one or
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Presentation Folder Templates
All templates are available in EPS (Adobe Illustrator v8)
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Poster Templates
Posters are larger sheets usually printed on one side only. We are sup
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Letterhead Templates
We are supplying both an InDesign and .PDF layout of our most popu
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Envelope Templates
We are supplying both an InDesign and .PDF layouts of our most popul
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Business Card Templates
We are supplying InDesign and .PDF layouts of both horizon
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Quick Tips for Graphics Applications and Digital File Creation
Below are links to pages
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Quick Tips - Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign (all versions)
InDesign appears to
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Quick Tips - Adobe Photoshop
Tools Behaving Badly? (all versions)
If you're h
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Quick Tips - Adobe Products (all applications)
Quick Zooms
All Adobe products
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Quick Tips - Adobe Illustrator
Need more viewing space? (all versions)
Hit th
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Quick Tips - QuarkXPress
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This is a test
H1 Heading
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Intech Express Web-to-Print (W2P) Solution for Collateral
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On Demand Web 2 Print For Collateral & Brand Management
Intech Expres
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On Demand Web 2 Print For Collateral & Brand Management
BPO Expr
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Fraction To Decimal Conversion Chart
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CMYK Color Selection Chart
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