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 | How to set up bleed | |
Bleed must extend to red Bleed line, further than the blue Cut line. Using our templates can help visualize this. Please keep all text and anything you do not want cut inside the green Save line.
| Color Separation Process | |
In order to produce full-color artwork on a commercial press, you need to separate your electronic composite art file into CMYK colors by producing a film separation for each ink-color cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and any spot colors-needed to print the colors in your file. A commercial printer uses these films to create the printing plates used on the press. Varying the intensity level of different plates allows artists to produce the myriad of colors that you see when you look at printed materials. You can output your own color separations at a pre-press shop or image setter - or you can send your electronic files to Abet Disc Inc. and we will do it for you. Should you decide to output the films for your printed inserts yourself, please keep in mind that there are rigid specifications which must be met in order to properly output the finished product. There are two different kinds of film necessary to create the artwork for your disc, negative-film for offset printing and posetive-film for silk screen printing. The film specifications are as follows:
| On-Disc Printing Specifications | |
Offset
Film Negative - Emulsion Side Down 175 Line Screen Right Reading
Silk Screen
Film Positive 90 Line Screen Right Reading
In order to produce films, you need to use a computer with imagesetter and some widely used publishing software. For film output, We recommend Quark XPress, which are supported by virtually every imagesetter. Once you have these things, you're ready to begin. You'll need to set your document up according to required specifications to insure that your document will fit into your packaging once it's cut.
| Things to keep in mind | |
- Keep your images at 300 DPI
- Remember to include all fonts and font suitcases. - The most common mistake made by amateur artists is to forget to include the fonts. Without them, we cannot produce the text that you have seen on your screen.
- Make sure and send a composite printout - a printout of all of the color plates within your document and send it along to your image setter. This way the image setter knows what he's trying to output.
- If possible, use a Macintosh - per industry standard - you can get away with windows documents, but it's riskier for several reasons.
- Never use JPEG's or GIF's in printed materials.
- Make sure your crop marks don't go into the actual images on your inserts.
- Make sure and get a color proof.
- For file formats, USE .TIFF, .EPS
NOTE: Do not alter fonts within Quark Xpress. Stylize your text in EPS, or use other fonts. We cannot output your films if you use Quark to BOLD or ITALICIZE...etc your fonts.
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