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Basics of Working With FrameMaker / Who is Your Printer?

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OK - who is your printer and why? Let's find out more about this. First thing we have to determine before you even decide to do any project, because your project is often going to be sent to a commercial printer. What goes to your commercial printer, who is your commercial printer? Let's start with that - a commercial printer is any small printing company that does projects; you know from files that you actually give them. Well what goes to a commercial printer? We have images; your documents; everything necessary for your project; fonts. Who is your printer? Well, your printer could be several different types of companies - I mean there is too many to actually recommend. You should definitely open up the yellow pages and check out different types of printing houses or commercial printers. How will you store your data? Are you going to do CD ROM, zipped disk - the Internet seems to be new and you know fancy these days. Always have a back up commercial printer, always have a second commercial printer. You never know, you visit your commercial printer, he is having some problems that day and you need to get a job done, you have to be able to anticipate what is going to happen before it happens. It is very important to do that, so always have a back up commercial printer. Know your commercial printer very well, build a relationship, ask questions, educate yourself as much as much as humanely possible. Check and triple check your work. Check your spelling and your last minute typos - you know, check to see if images are inverted accidentally, sometimes it happens. Also check you fonts, make sure you know all your fonts. Make a checklist of all the things you need to give your commercial printer, which is very important. Your images, your fonts, your documents, everything that is part of the project should be necessary. Learn what your commercial printer has to offer, sometimes your commercial printer has a lot of good deals and it is worthwhile to check into them. Determine the types of stock you will use, or you will be using in your project. Stock, what does that mean? Well paper, if we have to get simple. Standard stock, well that's for you know, less quality jobs or low quality jobs. And then you have coated stock, which usually has a clay compound on the paper, and that's high quality printing. Know your fonts, it’s so important, know your fonts! There is plenty of different types of Garamond - how does your printer know which Garamond font is the one he has? So know your fonts, this is very important. Also make sure your images are the proper color system, CMYK, which is very important. If you are using Pantone, use Pantone, and make a checklist. CMYK, which is very important. If you are using Pantone, use Pantone, and make a checklist.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe FrameMaker 7
Author: Mario Leone
SKU: 33408
ISBN: 1932072187
Release Date: 2003-01-28
Duration: 9 hrs / 129 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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