Print ready standards ?
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what kind of printing are you doing?
i worked as a printer for a number of years, the RIPS that processed for larger format and table or bed printing would output differently than the digital presses and publication printers... and then the differences in digital and offset were huge too-i guess a bit of a rabbit trail, but we always exported print files to pdfs, but one day when one of the service techs was in updating the printer, he told me that this particular (mimaki) machine and RIP were designed to output directly from illustrator. i had the same file, once printed as a pdf, and once as an .ai - and the .ai one was definitely more crisp and vivid...
all that to say that each printer (machine) has it's own quirks - and each printer (human operator) knows them...
-this is concerning places that value print... those big online print factories that run thru paper like it was hotel laundry, well, those are something completely different too.
i'd like to see what you come up with though. post it when you're done?