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