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questions! different printers process colo
have different processes low, magent
and standards for what they computer sc
want. these tips are a general red, green a
overview but many not apply jobs make su
to all to printers. if you want set to CYMK
things to go as smoothly as
possible, you may want to ask however as
the printer exactly what they when printin
need to make sure you are printers, leav
doing everything correctly. native form
be 1998 RG
use RGB ink

TIPS FOR SUCCESS

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inting uses four most digital printers only use
or inks: cyan, yel- CYMK colors. spot colors
ta, and black. your (pantones), white, metallic
creen uses RGB- and florescent colors are
and blue. for most specialty inks and are usually
ure your files are available at a large fee at
K and not RGB. offset or specialty digital
printers.
wythken notes,
ng on LGF TIP 4
ve photos in the
of sRGB or Ado- in indesign, command-i
B. these printers checks your spelling. always
ks. proofread and check spelling
before you get a final printed
to avoid embarrassment. the
best way to do this is to read
it backwards.

TIP 5 TIP 6

when using images, the for full bleed doc
higher the resolution of the provide at least a
image, the greater the detail on the document
can be reproduced. however, can be set up und
images that are over 600 dpi options in indesig
make the file extremely large document setting
and pretty unnecessary. as making the pdf, m
a standard make sure your you indicate that
images are 300 ppi (pixels crop marks are o
per inch).
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process, send file
print ready pdf (in
export the file). m
you select the “p
“press” settings a
crops and bleed a

cuments, TIP 8
a 1/8” bleed
t itself (this don’t wait until last minute.
der more printing is a struggle, and
gn under things are going to go wrong
gs). when if you wait until last minute.
make sure paper or ink run out. the
bleed and printer crashes. be prepared
on! for a backup plan.

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PAPER

COATED WEIGHT

some paper is coated with an dealing with different paper
agent to improve brightness weights and thickness can be
or printing properties. differ- very confusing. paper weight
ent types of coating include is defined as the weight of
gloss, dull, matte, and satin. 500 sheets of paper at its ba-
sis size, which is different for
UNCOATED different categories of paper.

uncoated paper is typically some different categories of
more porous and available in paper include: text, book,
more textures and weights. offset, bond, writing, cover,
index, tag, vellum and bristol.
OPACITY bond/writing and text/book/
offset are equivalent weights.
the opacity tells you how
much will show through here is a helpful list of paper
the other side of the paper, from lightest to heaviest:
which can be particularly 20# bond
important to double-sided 24# bond = 60# text
prints. on a 0-100 scale, the 28# bond = 70# text
higher the number the less 32# bond = 80# text
you can see through it. 100# text
65# cover
80# cover
100# cover

BRIGHTNESS

the brightness is how bright
or white your paper is. the
brighter the paper the more
vivid and crisp everything
appears. brightness is usually
measured 92-100.

BINDING

SADDLE STITCH

the most common binding depending on where you go however, if you intend on
method is saddle stitch. this is for printing, depends on how making your own saddle
meant to documents roughly the printer will want the file stitch book, the pages are
8-80 pages and done with of a saddle stitch book. usually printed as spreads
two/three staples in the in a peculiar order. it helps
spine of the document. for example, uptown color to make a paper dumbie
and keithfabry prefer each time to get the order
note: the page length must individual sheets in the cor- correct. an example of the
be a multiple of 4! rect order of your book with order of a 8 page book is
crops and bleed because seen below.
they have a program that will
correctly set up the book
for you.

your book:

1 how to send it to
the printer:

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NAME ADDRESS HOURS CONTACT 11X17 PRICE/TIME 18X24 PRICE/TIME

A Graphics Lab 2nd Floor Pollak M-F 8:30-4:30 (804) 828-1710 $3.00 for one print Regular $1.00 per sq ft

no email $1.30 for multiple Matte $4.00 per sq ft
www.facebook.com/VCUGraphicsLab

B Wythken Printing 911 W Grace St M-F 8:00-6:00 (804) 353-8282 BW $0.30 / same day $27.00 / next day

[email protected] CMYK $1.30 / same day $12.00 / same day
www.wythken.com

C Uptown Color 1205 W Main St M-F 8:30-5:30 (804 )353-2679 $5.00 / same day $27.00 / next day

[email protected]
www.uptowncolor.com

D FedEx 1111 E Main St M-F 7:30-9:00 (804)783-9880 BW $0.46 / few hours BW $2.37 / few hours
CMYK $22.90 / same day
Sa 8:00-6:00 [email protected] CMYK $1.45 / few hours
http://local.fedex.com/va/richmond/office-0136/

E Staples 1601 Willow Lawn Dr M-F 8:00-9:00 (804) 673-3450 BW $0.17 / few hours $14.99 / same day

Suite 304 Sa 9:00-9:00 no email CMYK $0.67 / few hours
Su 10:00-6:00 http://www.staples.com/sbd/content/copyandprint/

f FedEx 5791 W Broad St 24 hours (804)288-0880 BW $0.28 / few hours BW $2.25 / few hours
CMYK $21.75 / same day
[email protected] CMYK $1.38 / few hours
http://local.fedex.com/va/richmond/office-1142/

(off of Keith Fabry 1420 Commerce Rd M-F 8:00-5:00 (804) 649-7551 $7.50 / same day BW $7.50 / same day

map) [email protected] CMYK $26.00 / next day
www.keithfabry.com

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