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Your service providers try their best to make sure you get exactly what you expect, but in this age of electronic information and data moving from computer to computer and format to format it is very important that you always check your proofs carefully. A lot of things can happen between the design and the printing processes. Output your own proofs and file list and look them over before submitting them to your printer. A lot of problems can be cought this way such as missing or damaged data and color separation mistakes. Your service provider usually provides proofs of some kind before output. Look carefully for font reflows, missing hyphens, symbols which might default to something else and lo res images. Remember, when you approve a final proof of your project, you are saying to print the project exactly as the proof indicates.