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Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Specifying PMS Colors in Microsoft Publisher
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
First things first:
- Generally, we advise the use of PANTONE solid coated colors when designing and building your documents. Staying consistent with your color naming not only makes it easier for you, but it also gives us the most flexibility in regards to color editing, selecting, & matching.
- Specifying a color as uncoated or coated will not change the ink that is used when printing a spot-color project, it just changes the way the color is represented on your laser proof. The same exact ink can look very different depending on whether it is being printed on a coated or uncoated sheet – even if the sheets are the same shade of white.
- If the project is a 4-color process piece, we have found it is best to allow our software to determine the tints to make up the recipe to best match the PMS color. This is especially true if the piece will be produced digitally.
Specifying PMS Colors In Microsoft Publisher:
- Open the document in Publisher.
- Highlight the object, rule, or text that you wish to color.
- Within the Tool Bar, select either the bucket, the paintbrush, or the capital letter “A” to show the drop down menu. (The bucket is to fill objects or text boxes with color, the paintbrush is to color lines and rules, the “A” is to color text.)
- Within the drop down menu, click on More Colors to select which “color mode” to work in. For more info about “color mode”, see: http://mnbusinessprintinganddirectmail.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/highlight-printing-minneapolis-mn-printing-tips-and-tricks-our-pre-press-experts-answer-rgb-cmyk-pmswhat-does-it-mean-and-how-to-specify-color-to-get-the-desired-results/
- Select the 3rd tab over – the one marked PANTONE. Leave it at the default of Color Coated.
- Type in the PMS color you desire and click Find.
- Once you Find your color, select OK. The selected border, object, text, etc. will now change to that color.
- HINT: After you select a color once, there will be a little sample of it within the drop down menu so you can quickly color objects within the same document again and again.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Specifying PMS Colors in Adobe Illustrator
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
First things first:
- Generally, we advise the use of PANTONE solid coated colors when designing and building your documents. Staying consistent with your color naming not only makes it easier for you, but it also gives us the most flexibility in regards to color editing, selecting, & matching.
- Specifying a color as uncoated or coated will not change the ink that is used when printing a spot-color project, it just changes the way the color is represented on your laser proof. The same exact ink can look very different depending on whether it is being printed on a coated or uncoated sheet – even if the sheets are the same shade of white.
- If the project is a 4-color process piece, we have found it is best to allow our software to determine the tints to make up the recipe to best match the PMS color. This is especially true if the piece will be produced digitally.
Specifying PMS Colors In Adobe Illustrator:
- Open the document in Illustrator.
- On the top menu bar, select Window and scroll down to Swatches.
- In the Swatches palette, click on the small arrow in the upper right corner to open a drop down menu.
- Scroll to Open Swatch Library, then scroll to Color Books, then scroll to PANTONE solid coated to open the PANTONE solid coated palette.
- For ease, click on the small arrow in the upper right corner of the PANTONE solid coated palette and select Show Find Field.
- Type the PMS color you are looking for into the Find box. (The color swatch number you type in will be highlighted.)
- Select the item(s) you wish to color and then click on the color in the PANTONE solid color palette. This will simultaneously color your item(s) and place the color swatch in your Swatches palette.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Specifying PMS Colors in QuarkXPress
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
First things first:
- Generally, we advise the use of PANTONE solid coated colors when designing and building your documents. Staying consistent with your color naming not only makes it easier for you, but it also gives us the most flexibility in regards to color editing, selecting, & matching.
- Specifying a color as uncoated or coated will not change the ink that is used when printing a spot-color project, it just changes the way the color is represented on your laser proof. The same exact ink can look very different depending on whether it is being printed on a coated or uncoated sheet – even if the sheets are the same shade of white.
- If the project is a 4-color process piece, we have found it is best to allow our software to determine the tints to make up the recipe to best match the PMS color. This is especially true if the piece will be produced digitally.
Specifying PMS Colors In Quark:
- Open the document in Quark.
- On the top menu bar, select Edit and scroll down to Colors.
- In the Colors window, select New.
- In the Edit Color window change Model to PANTONE solid coated.
- Type the PMS number you are looking for in the bottom right box, or scroll thru the color menu and click on a PMS color.
- Click OK the click Save - your new color will now show in the Colors palette.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Specifying PMS Colors in Adobe InDesign
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
First things first:
- Generally, we advise the use of PANTONE solid coated colors when designing and building your documents. Staying consistent with your color naming not only makes it easier for you, but it also gives us the most flexibility in regards to color editing, selecting, & matching.
- Specifying a color as uncoated or coated will not change the ink that is used when printing a spot-color project, it just changes the way the color is represented on your laser proof. The same exact ink can look very different depending on whether it is being printed on a coated or uncoated sheet – even if the sheets are the same shade of white.
- If the project is a 4-color process piece, we have found it is best to allow our software to determine the tints to make up the recipe to best match the PMS color. This is especially true if the piece will be produced digitally.
Specifying PMS Colors In InDesign:
- Open the document in InDesign.
- If your swatch pallet is not open, go to the top menu bar, click on Window and scroll down to Swatches.
- In the Swatches palette, click on the small arrow in the upper right corner to open the drop down menu.
- Select New Color Swatch. Color Type should be Spot. Color Mode should be PANTONE solid coated.
- Type the PMS number you are looking for, or click on the color in the scroll down menu.
- Click OK – and the color has been added to your swatches.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Pre-press Terminology and Definitions
The pre-press experts @ Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Minneapolis, MN, have assembled these definitions and common terminology:
- Vector File: Unlike raster images, vector files are made with lines and curves rather than dots and are not resolution dependent. Because vector files are not resolution dependent, they will print crisp and clean regardless of the size they are printed. Vector files end in .ai or .eps. Logos and line art are best created as vector images because of the general desire to have usability at any size without having to re-create the file. Type is also a vector file.
- Raster Image: Raster images are made up of pixels (data) to comprise the image. Many printed pieces are a mixture of raster images (photos, art, etc.) and vector (type, logos, etc.) Raster images are resolution dependant and do not print well if their effective dpi is not high enough. Sometimes called bitmap images.
- Image Resolution: The amount of data in a raster image. Ideally 300 dpi for printing.
- Trap: A slight overlap of 2 different colors to prevent a white gap between those colors when offset printing
- Bleed: The extra image around the finished size of a page that is trimmed off in the finishing process.
- 4-color process: A printing process that uses just 4 colors of ink (yellow, magenta, cyan, and black) to, as closely as possible, represent every color in the rainbow. Also known as full color, 4-color, and CMYK.
- RGB & CMYK: are terms that define a color mode or color “space”. RGB (red, green, blue) color mode is the format that is used to image onto various monitors and is used for the higher quality photograph imaging. CMYK is used for the printing process.
- PMS: Pantone Matching System. Pantone is a company that developed a way to standardize and name colors (generally with a number, like PMS 185). This system has become the international system for color naming.
- RIP: Raster Image Processor. “RIPs” are software that processes and converts the data in your file to make it printable on your output device.
There are MANY MANY more terms commonly used in printing. Please contact us if you’d like us to add a term or definition to our list.
You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for working with us to assemble the whole series of “Quick Tips”.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: How To “Zip” Your File
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Minneapolis, MN, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
It is a good idea to compress your files before sending them to the printer. Compressing your files not only makes them smaller, but also helps to ensure that your files will not become corrupt during transmission. “Zip” is the most widely used format for compression. We often say, “Zip the file and send it over”, or “Have you zipped the file?”, or “We’re zipping the file right now”.
Here are the simple instructions on how to “zip” your file:
First, locate the folder in which you have “collected” or “packaged” the layout, pictures, art and fonts or hi-res PDF, then:
- On a Mac, press control and click on your folder. On the menu that pops up, scroll down to Compress “folder name”.
- On a PC, right click on your folder and scroll down to Send To, then over to Compress (zipped) Folder.
DONE! Your file has been “zipped” and is ready to send to the printer. For more info about sending your file, see the blog topic “The Safe And Easy Way To Send Your File To The Printer”: http://mnbusinessprintinganddirectmail.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/highlight-printing-minneapolis-mn-tips-and-tricks-the-safe-and-easy-way-to-send-your-file-to-the-printer/
Note: Before you zip, see these 2 blogs about “Collecting” or “Packaging” your project and Creating a hi-res PDF:
- http://mnbusinessprintinganddirectmail.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/highlight-printing-minneapolis-mn-printing-tips-and-tricks-sending-you-file-to-be-printed-quark-collect-for-output-indesign-package/
- http://mnbusinessprintinganddirectmail.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/highlight-printing-minneapolis-mn-quick-tips-creating-a-pdf/
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Tips and Tricks: The Safe And Easy Way To Send Your File To The Printer
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Minneapolis, MN, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
Depending on your print provider, hitting the “send” or “upload file” button can be a littel stressful: Have I done everything “right”…there’s no going back once I hit “send”. At Highlight, first of all, you don’t have to worry about that – we communicate with you through the whole process. However, it is still a good idea to give your file a good once-over before sending it. Here are some tips :
- First: Does your file have all of the necessary components to ensure a quality print project? Before we even produce a proof, we will carefully examine your files to let you know if anything seems “wrong”. But of course the best scenario is to build files properly to begin with. Within our blog there are multiple “Tips and Tricks” (too many to attach links) that address proper file set-up to help you. But remember, we are always here, too — feel free to call with any question.
- Second: Did you do a “Collect for Output” if you are working in Quark…or a “Package” if working in InDesign? Here’s a quick link with a few more tips: http://mnbusinessprintinganddirectmail.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/highlight-printing-minneapolis-mn-printing-tips-and-tricks-sending-you-file-to-be-printed-quark-collect-for-output-indesign-package/
- Second: Did you “Zip” your file? Here is a link to the blog explaining file compression and protection: http://mnbusinessprintinganddirectmail.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/highlight-printing-minneapolis-mn-printing-tips-and-tricks-how-to-zip-your-file/
Ok, now you’re ready to send the file! There are several easy ways to submit your file to Highlight Printing:
- A file of any size can be quickly and easily uploaded to our website @ www.highlightprinting.com. Once you’re at our site, click the Estimate, Order, Upload Files button then click on the Send Files & Orders tab. It’s that easy!
- If it is under 10 mb, you can simply email the file to your salesperson or customer service person with the instructions for the project and a reference to any estimating or planning we may have done.
- Of course we welcome files on CD, DVD, and Thumb or Jumpdrive.
A couple notes:
- If you are not already signed up as a user, click Start Here. Follow the instructions for signing up – and then you are ready to upload.
- Keep track of your password. Passwords are case-sensitive, created by you, and we do not have access to them.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovations.To see other topics within this blog, click HERE
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Sending Your File To Be Printed – Quark = “Collect for Output”, InDesign = “Package”
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Minneapolis, MN, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
The two standard page building programs that graphics professionals primarily use to build their files are QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. (A separate blog about Word and Publisher to follow.) When a project goes to the printer, 3 things should always be supplied:
- The page that was built in Quark or InDesign
- All photos and art
- All fonts
Allow me to explain: When you use these programs to build your page, the photos and art that you have placed within the document are actually just lo-res place holders for the real thing. And yes, we have many fonts in our library, but for many reasons it is always better to supply the font you actually used to build the page.
So, how do you quickly and thoroughly get it all together for the printer? Simple…use “Collect for Output” in Quark or “Package” in InDesign to automatically bring it all together. Here’s how you do it:
- Create a folder on your desktop where all of the pieces can land. Suggestion: Name the folder “Collected_XYZ Projectt”.
- In Quark, go to File on the menu bar, scroll down and click on “Collect for Output”. Collect the layout, pictures, art, and fonts into the folder on your desktop.
- In InDesign, go to File on the menu bar, scroll down and click on “Package”. Collect the layout, pictures, art, and fonts into the folder on your desktop.
This easy step ensures that you provide all the necessary elements for the printer to produce your project. The next step? File compression. Watch for a separate blog on that topic.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help! We welcome your comments to this blog.
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution.
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovations.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Image Resolution Guidelines For DPI, LPI, PPI, AND SPI
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Minneapolis, MN, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
Definition: (Based on the definition from www.about.com): Resolution is a measure of the output quality of an image. Typical resolution terms and definitions are:
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PPI = Pixels per inch, and refers primarily to screen resolution (TV’s, computers, etc.), although you do hear this term in reference to the resolution of digital iamges that will be printed
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DPI = Dots per inch, and refers primarily to the resolution of a digital image that will be printed
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SPI = Samples per inch, and refers primarily to scanner resolution
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LPI = Lines per inch (also called “line screen”), and refers to how fine the dots are when printing an image. The higher the LPI = a finer the dot = a smoother more detailed image
For our purposes here, we are most concerned about PPI/DPI and LPI – the original resolution of the image and the resolution of the output device to help produce a quality printed piece.
The main thing to remember about image resolution is that the higher the ppi/dpi, the more clean and crisp your images will look when they are printed. A resolution of 300 dpi is preferred for the best quality for printing. Much bigger than that and the files get huge without any benefit in print quality and much smaller (called lo-res) may result in poor image quality. (Warning – if you have an image that is 1″x1″ @ 300 dpi, then enlarge it to 2″x2″, your new resolution is 150 dpi. And just “adding resolution” doesn’t gain you anything because the data isn’t in the image in the first place - a computer can’t create data that’s not there.)
Web images are generally 72 dpi and will print fuzzy and clumpy although some images are more forgiving than others and digital printing is more forgiving that offset. As a general rule of thumb, never use web images for print, but if that’s all you’ve got, feel free to email or upload the image to us, and we’ll give you our opinion if it will be OK – we may even run a quick test output.
The extension at the end of a file can tell a lot about the image. An image saved as .psd, .eps, or .tif will generally have the best quality. A .jpeg file is a compressed version of the picture, but sometimes are high enough resolution to be acceptable. A .gif is a low resolution graphic intended for the web.
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Quick Tips”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help!
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution.
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovations.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Printing Tips and Tricks: Our Pre-press Experts Answer: RGB, CMYK, PMS…What Does It Mean and How To Specify Color To Get The Desired Results
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Minneapolis, MN, offers Quick Tips from our pre-press experts:
Definitions:
CMYK is the method that printers use to represent every color in the rainbow. It stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. From your People Magazine to the poster about Chicken Pox in the doctor’s office to the jacket on the latest DVD you bought, if it is “full color”, it almost certainly is CMYK. Another term for CMYK is four color process, or just “four color” for short.
PMS stands for Pantone Matching System. It is the standard that most printers use for “Spot Color” printing to guarantee the same color time after time. Using a Pantone color is like picking a can of paint – you look in a book and pick out the color you want.
RGB is the method that TV’s, computers and other screens use to display color. It stands for red, green, and blue. Every color you see on a screen – whether it be a Pepsi commercial, your favorite TV show, or a website, only these 3 colors are used.
Setting up your files:
CMYK: If you are printing a 4-color document, you want to make sure that all of you elements (photos, type, color blocks, etc.) are CMYK, not RGB. Our software or equipment can convert RGB to CMYK, but sometimes the results are not what you expected. Note: In some programs (Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Publisher come to mind) you can choose your document color mode (sometimes known as color space); RGB or CMYK. You should always build your print files in CMYK. Building your files in RGB and then converting to CMYK does not yield the same color as if it were built in CMYK. This tip is especially critical when digital color printing is the desired output.
PMS: If you are printing a spot-color document, you need to make sure that all the elements within the document have the same color name. For example, if your Illustrator file says PMS 186C and your Quark file says PMS 186U, the output device will read them as 2 separate colors.
RGB: Printers don’t use the RGB color mode. Suffice it to say that when you are building a file that will be printed, no matter if it is printed in four color process or with spot-colors, make sure you are not setting the file up with RGB colors. You will get more predictable results if you start off working in the right color mode.
Additonal notes:
*Yes, you can set up a job with spot-colors and then print it CMYK instead. (Just please follow the same set-up guidelines for a spot-color project and know that the 4-color representation of the PMS color may not be exactly perfect.)
*Yes, you can use a combination of CMYK and PMS. [Again, just use the same set-up guidelines. Your photos should be in CMYK and many people limit the PMS colors to just 1 or 2. If we print a 5 or 6 color project digitally, we will convert the PMS colors to their CMYK equivalent. If we print a 5 or 6 color project offset, we can either convert the PMS colors to their CMYK equivalent or print on a 5 or 6 color press (4 color process plus 1 or 2 PMS colors). Most of the time, most people choose to convert all to CMYK.]
*Don’t worry! Need more help? That’s what we do! Please contact us for your own personalized version of “Tips and Tricks”. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Also, please watch for more “Tips and Tricks” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help!
A big shout-out to Chris in our pre-press department for giving us these “Tips and Tricks”.
These tips are accurate for most digital and offset methods of printing. Please give us a call for more specific info about your particular project. You can contact us @ 612.522.7600 or through our website @ www.highlightprinting.com Watch for more “Quick Tips” in the weeks to come – we’re here to help!
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution.
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovations.
