Re: FN-FORUM: Dummy's print question

date posted 26th February 2004 18:39

printers always seem to ask for quark files when it is perfectly reasonable
to import a bitmap/tif/jpg/psd
into quark themselves..?

I would flatten the image in photoshop, make sure it is CMYK mode and send
it to them as an eps or tif file


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jakob Widerberg" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Dummy's print question


>
>
> slightly off topic and excuse my ignorance - apart from printing a PDF to
> average quality A4 sheet in b/w at the local print shop I have no
experience
> or clue - but all this 'we need it in quark version x oh and it must be
mac
> and dont even think about illustrator or PDF or PC' sounds bizarre to me..
> is being a printer really that hard and difficult or are print shops just
> slow and reluctant to upgrade and get with the program?
>
> > Except they can't handle Illustrator files from a PC, hence I'm forced
> > to use Photoshop...
>
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