How-To Articles/Prepress Tips & Hints

These articles are provided to give you a better understanding of the processes we use to complete your projects. You’ll also find helpful articles to better use our products and services. We even provide some suggestions on how to do things on your own to save you time, money, and frustration because we care about our customers. We’ve covered a lot of information in this section but if you think of anything we’ve missed or have any further questions or need further advice is setting up your files, just let us know.

• Quick Guide to File Compression
  
  
• How To Use Fonts (And Why You Should Care)
  
  
• Know Your PDF
  
  
• Tips on Paper Selection
  
  
• Writing Effective E-Mail Copy
  
  
• Developing an Effective Brochure
  
  
• Raster Images vs. Vector Graphics
  
  
• Understanding Viruses
  
  
• Scanning for Different Media
  
  
• Submitting a clean file
  
  
• Supply only the files needed
  
  
• Check your proofs
  
  
• Planning ahead
  
  
• Saving Photoshop files
  
  
• True type fonts
  
  
• Streamlining your color pallet
  
  
• Flatten your layers
  
  
• Clipping paths in Quark 4
  
  
• Providing laser copies
  
  
• Flightcheck
  
  
• Illustrator files
  
  
• Fonts
  
  
• Line width
  
  
• Style menus
  
  
• Applications
  
  
• Image scaling and rotating
  
  
• Printer and screen fonts
  
  
• Spot color names