Design
The Prepress department offers a wide variety of services including graphic design, desktop publishing and pre-flighting your supplied files. Graphic Design and layout services are available for any number and type of publication. Examples include: logos, graphics, displays, posters, brochures, books, flyers, annual reports, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, and more.Desktop Publishing Services Output of customer-created electronic files to either a high-resolution imagesetter, color printer or high-speed xerographic equipment. We currently support the following software programs in both Macintosh and Windows platforms (when available):
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
- QuarkXpress
- MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Microsoft Publisher
Preflighting Supplied Files
The process of preflighting a file helps reduce the likelihood of rasterization problems that cause production delays. Page layout software applications, (which allow users to combine images, graphics, and text from a variety of formats,) automate portions of the preflight process.
Typically, client provided materials are verified by a preflight operator for completeness and to confirm the incoming materials meet the production requirements. The pre-flight process checks for:
- images and graphics embedded by the client have been provided and are available to the application
- fonts are accessible to the system
- fonts are not corrupt
- fonts are in a compatible file format
- image files are of formats that the application can process
- image files are of the correct color format (some RIPs have problems
- processing RGB images, for example)
- image files are of the correct resolution
- required color profiles are included
- image files are not corrupt
- confirm that the page layout document size, margins, bleeds, marks and
- page information all fit within the constraints of the output device and
- match the client specifications
- confirm that the correct colour separations or ink plates are being output