From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Final thoughts
From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Final thoughts
- As you're preparing to submit your job to the printer, let's look at that job one more time. One last look can't hurt, right? So let's start with the document itself. Check those overall dimensions. Make sure it's built to final trim size. And by the way, that means no little bitty business card on an eight and a half by 11 page. Build it to the correct trim size. If you're building a folding piece, check those folding panel dimensions remember that you're going to have panels that need to fold in and they all have to be short trimmed. If you have artwork that's going to the edge of the page, remember that it needs to go beyond the edge of the page. Be sure to provide bleed. On most documents in the US, we asked for an eighth of an inch bleed that's 0.125 inches. In other countries, it's usually in millimeters and it's usually about three millimeters. Now, if you're building really large stuff like great big posters…
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