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- blastofv0
Bottom line, get print specs from your printer before you build your final designs... they're all using different presses/machines for output, so tell them what you want to produce, and they should hook you up with right info.
For print ads, talk to the magazines and get their ad specs... lots of resizing for multiple publications...
- safe0
Few things,
Never ever send font's to the printers.
1) It's voids the contract you sign/accept when you purchase the fonts.
2) Printing is a Service. If you contract someone to paint you don't go out and buy him brushes. The cost of doing buisness and materials is under his head. However, if you ask the printer/painter to use a very uncommon typeface or such then you should take the blunt of the cost or take the nesscary precausions.
If you are using a rare, custom, or uncommon typeface. Just create outlines!
You should never have to or need to send fonts to a printer.
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Make sure you are both using the same CYMK process.
If your using toyo coated make sure you tell him. So you don't get some weird bugged out color fiasco.
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1/8" bleed
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and Talk to the printers, magazines espcially have a certian process they use that is very diffrent. Then just sending over flattened psds/tiffs/eps.
- BonSeff0
"Never ever send font's to the printers."
HA HA!
- monkeyme0
from my book of hard learned lessons:
...if you use Photoshop, make sure to FLATTEN the file before saving. If you think saving it as an .eps automatically flattens it, you will get back a print job with half the art missing (this was the first mistake I ever made)
...make converting rgb to cmyk a reflex. Do it even if you are sure there are no RGB images.
...investing in a pre-flight software is a very good idea
- unknown0
Never send fonts to printers...
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I'ts far far easier to just send em. Who the hell purchases fonts these days anyway. Or so I hear.
- WildPony0
Oh, and try to stay out of CMYK until the end. You can use more filters and cool stuff in RGB (just preview cmyk). Convert to CMYK when your done.
Once you do covert to CMYK never change back! (its bad news)
- blastofv0
I think I bought a font once...
No, wait, no I didn't.
- monkeyme0
oh thats another hard-learned lesson. In my beginning print days I actually said to a printer, "include fonts? Isn't that illegal?"
...go ahead, try it, I dare you.
- BonSeff0
when i send my 18 page catalog to the printer and they come back to me with "say man, you forgot to send us the printer fonts,"
I always tell them, i bought the fonts, you didnt! if you want to print this job, go buy the fonts!
they love it when i do that.
- safe0
In 1999, I worked for one of the largest firms on the southeast, My coworker sent out a 'House Ind' font to the printer along with a custom font from a corporation that was not to be distributed.
He was fired.
It's also against the law. A font is a piece of software, just like photoshop. So you gonna zip photoshop on a cd and send to your printer everytime you send a psd?
'Cause like who pays for software dude?
- Lychee0
I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one who have more than 500 fonts, but have never paid for
- BonSeff0
oh yeah, thats another point:
dont just send the screen font, send the printer fonts too
- safe0
"when i send my 18 page catalog to the printer and they come back to me with "say man, you forgot to send us the printer fonts,"
I always tell them, i bought the fonts, you didnt! if you want to print this job, go buy the fonts!
they love it when i do that. "I guess, this is what happens when you deal with some 9.99 print outfit?
- thosethat0
you can always 'lend' the font to the printer...
just for the purpose if printing your work...
;)
- Lychee0
but i really feel guilty.
- safe0
You can always just rape someone if they say no to having sex.
- thosethat0
when it's printed just ask for the font back...
- Bio0
develop a good relationship with your printer.
photoshop is fine to design in, but your files will be bigger and also the only way you can get a solid black is to use spot color black. photoshop by default makes all black a process color... so it is lighter than it should be.
vector art will ALWAYS be cleaner than raster. it is a law of nature.
high res raster type is fine, but your files will be much larger than they have to be. and PreFlight apps are your friend. they will save your ass if you arent an organized person. =)
- exador0
i worked in print for a long long time before switching over to web design...
i have never...never...ever...heard of anyone NOT sending fonts to a printer...
i've heard of people not sending em by accident, and then getting a call from the printer saying 'hey...where the fuck are your fonts?'..
but never not sending 'on purpose'...
i dunno safe..
i suppose its possible that what you're saying is true or something..but i know i've never heard of it...
theoretically i suppose it's wrong or something to pass around the fonts..
but...
realistically?everyone does..its how you get jobs printed...
the convert to outlines trick is pretty good tho...
always a good work around...just make sure you don't do it to your master copy...incase you have to make a text change...
;)not slammin ya safe..i've just never heard of anyone being that careful with fonts before...
- BonSeff0
safe, yer a dumbass
this is how the 99.998% of the country does it.
save your font legaleise