Your design goes off to the printer and comes back a week later as 10,000 high-quality, full-color brochures. Yes, your graphic design talents were needed, but so was the art of the PrePress Production Operator:

Multiple Intelligence lesson plan, #4

Color bar, Crop marks, Resgister marks, Tick or Fold marks, Legend- all some of the elements that help tie your design together into what will be a predictable output via PDF. And oh yes, they preflight, as should you! As designers, several of the “tips” that are given often regard having a better understanding of the prepress process and a good communication with the printer. See link below to article:

“6 Things Every Designer Should Have:“

Tags: Color bar, Crop marks, Design, designers, graphic design, Legend, PDF, preflight, prepress, printer, repro, Tick or Fold marks

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