GRAPHICS
• Live Area: Make sure your graphics and type do not extend too close to a trim edge. Type and graphics not intended to bleed should be at least 3/8” clear of the head, foot, face, gutter or other trim area.

• All photos must be at least 300 dpi. All line art or bitmap images should be 1200 dpi.

• Supply all placed images separately, even if you have embedded them in your master file. Please avoid embedding images. Place them as linked files if possible.

• Rotate and size images in their original program, i.e., Illustrator, Freehand or Photoshop, before importing into Pagemaker, InDesign or Quark; they will image faster.

• When superimposing silhouetted graphics make sure you save them with a clipping path. (Remember to turn clipping path “on” and save with a flatness setting of “1.”)

• In Quark Xpress, when placing TIFF files in picture boxes, make sure the background is set to “white” or “black 0%”. If the background needs to stay “none”, you MUST create a clipping path to properly silhouette the image. Images silhouetted in Quark picture boxes with background set to none will print correctly only in composite mode to your office printer—they will NOT print correctly as separations to any Postscript RIP.

• To reduce banding in gradations, use a broad range (e.g., 5%-95% as opposed to 40%-60%). In Photoshop, Add Noise (Gaussian) of 3 pixels (or 4%, in version 7 or later) to blends and watch any banding disappear.

• Avoid using JPEGS, BMPs, PICTs or any nonstandard bitmap file format. Bitmap support files should be EPS or Tiff files.