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Knowing the Prepress



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By : Joel Owens    9 or more times read
Submitted 2008-06-24 00:50:06
Have you ever wondered who handles you print jobs each and every time you ask an online printing company to do them for you? The prepress handles your job orders once you have uploaded them on the internet and they are the ones who are going to handle it from there. The quality and outcome of your work would depend on how they handle it. They are more of like an extended employee of your business because your print jobs would soley depends on how they deal with it.

The Prepress

The prepress is a team composed mostly of experienced graphic designers who are considered experts w hen it comes to their specific fields and specialties. They are the ones who would represent the printing company you are working with as you start your printing process until you end it.

What do they do?

They practically do everything from the start as you place your orders up until the end wherein your prints are shipped or mailed back to you. Here are just some of the things they are usually tasked to do.

• Planning
This comes most especially for those ones who know do not know too much about coming up with their print jobs. Not only will the prepress help you plan in whatever print you want to produce but they will also plan how your print jobs could be run to make it most cost-efficient. Their planning jobs could be as easy as assisting you with your design and layout up to the most complex of fixing which print is which and what goes first.

• Color Management
This is the step where they would check if the colors are compatible with the type of printing you are asking them to do. It is also their job to see if the colors contrast or complement each other. They could make some adjustments on the colors you incorporated but of course, they must first ask for your approval.

• Proofing
Proofing is the part where the graphic artists would check the over-all outcome of your print jobs. This is where they would check each and every detail of your prints. With your permission, they could make several adjustments that are capable of making your prints look its best.

• Design tips
Being the professional graphic designers that they are, they would be able to give you some tips that would work for you and your prints. These tips could range from doing your layouts, placing your images or the printing process itself. They are more than willing to help you and give you tips about whatever.

• File Submission
Once they have done the necessary adjustments and you have approved it, they would then submit these files to the printers which in turn would come up with the hard copies of your print jobs.

If you want your print jobs to come out at its best, you must trust the prepress with what they are doing. These people are the ones who guide you through out the whole printing process.
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