by kgibson | Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Pick up a printed magazine, and look at the page closely–through a magnifying glass if you have one. What do you see, dots or solid shapes? I’ll bet the photos are all dots, and the type is all solid shapes. To print a photo and some other graphics on a...
by kgibson | Jun 20, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Note: This is part two of a five-part series on Fabulous File Formats. What is a bleed, and what is a crop mark? These two design elements are essential to good file preparation, and so are very important. A bleed occurs when ink is set to print right up to the edge...
by kgibson | Jun 13, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Note: This is part one of a five-part blog about Fabulous File Formats. A recent newsletter printing job had the client printing out emails sent to her as content; she would then send the printed pages on to me. I would type it up, and we’d have to proofread it...
by kgibson | Jun 6, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Just like with anything else we do, there are best practices for how we do it. File preparation is no exception, and in fact is the single most important factor in achieving perfect production. We’ve identified five areas of file preparation that really rock our...
by kgibson | May 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
A couple of weeks ago we received an award at the ADOT conference when we were named DBE Trailblazer for the first quarter of 2012. We have been working in the transportation industry for years and there were many familiar faces at the event. So, I was caught a...
