Existing users, 
Hiya,
You are absolutely right. I am a designer, and there are lots of things I really do not know about printing. I always talk to the printer I send a file to to be sure I have everything sorted, an send them a PDF. Most just tell me about bleeds and crops, and off I go.
Whatever program you use, make sure you talk to your printer. Thanks for this little lesson. I'll still use InDesign just out of practice, but it always helps to have a printer that will educate me about how to really set up a file.
Maybe you could write something on your site. I know it might be a freebie, but I'd read it. There are so many things I do not know about how to set up a file Indesign for print. I have the basics, but not the little things. I don't know whey they are there, or if thye make a difference.
I knew the tint bit.
People should send you PDFs or EPSs. WHy are they sending you open files? Too complicated. Too much work post-design to reset it at a printer. Sounds like you come across some dufuses.
QuarkXPress
Page layout and design for print and web.
Version: 8.12
To Mr DavidRavenMoon - DavidRavenMoon
"WHy are they sending you open files?"Oh you'd be surprised... I'm talking Photoshop files with 25 layers and live type layers and all! Same with Illustrator files.
We don't understand it... to us it's just sloppy work or laziness. Or they just don't know any better. Once Adobe let ID work with native files it was all over! Then Quark followed suit. But both companies should know better, because in the end these types of files don't work without flattening the file first.
Now we use Printergy to render them to PDF files, but we still have issues.
Thank goodness for Pitstop!
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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 04:25 PM PDT