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FONTS
Before you finish your final draft of whatever
you want printed, contact Butler’s Pronto Print - or your printing service
- to see if they accept the fonts you are using.
NO- TrueType fonts may
cause problems for printers depending on the type of equipment they are
using. If you do use them, stay with Bitstream, Monotype, Linotype-Hell,
etc. - avoid cheap fonts created by unknowns.
YES- PostScript Fonts are best if you plan to
work with commercial printers. One great online site to check out for PostScript
Fonts and for organizing your computer fonts is
ADOBE. Be
sure to include both screen and printer fonts with the files you send to
us.
GRAPHICS
If you give Butler’s Pronto Print - or your printing service - a disk of
the documment you want to have printed, BE SURE to include, the graphic
files along with and separate from the files that you have embedded in
your document.
NO- WMF, GIF, JPEG, BMP,
etc., graphic files are not used by commercial printers.
YES- EPS and TIFF files are the best to provide
to your printer. Most decent graphics programs will convert files to this
format. If they are pixel based, use at least 300 dpi (dots per inch) reesolution
at the size you mean them to be printed, and preferably 600 dpi resolution
for all uses. For help with creating graphic files, you might look at
Photoshop,
Illustrator or
Corel.
TEXT
NO- In short, Word, WordPerfect and low end desk
top publishing programs are great for laser printers and office or home
documents, but they may cause problems for high resolution printers.
YES-
InDesign, Pagemaker, and
QuarkExpress,
or similar professional printing packages are worth the money if
you plan to work with commercial printers a great deal. Check out
Adobe,
Corel, or
Quark for more information.
PDF
If,
only if, your file is ready to go to press and all graphics are included
this format is great. In the event that editing needs to be done, PDFs
are difficult to work with. The more time we spend working on it, the more
it will cost you.
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