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Hi everyone, Excuse me if this is a rediculous question! I have no experience with letterpress, but have long been after the soft matte texture of paper that is used. All my designs are printed on a digital press, on coated stock. But some designs would lend themselves better to an uncoated...

Ive recently learned my lesson about using rich black instead of 100% black for text on a white background because of registration issues. But i now have to create a booklet design where the back cover is all black and therefore needs to be rich black. It has a small amount of white text on it...

Is it true that downsampling when exporting/saving a pdf in either Illustrator or Indesign does nothing if the design is vector? It does make sense but for years ive been assuming it did something. Especially in Illustrator where i would assume a high percentage of the design would be vector it...

Hi guys, Ive placed a file created in Illustrator CS3 into Indesign CS3. Part of the design is a seamless pattern. Using Step & Repeat i place it 6up on an SRA3 size document. At this stage all looks good the pattern in each occurence of the image is consistent/identical. Its not until i export...

Hi guys, Im very new to print finishing. I used to get the print shop to finish everything for me as far as trimming and scoring, but have recently bought a manual ream cutter and manual creasing machine to do it myself and save a bit of money. Im currently working on some wedding invitations...

Ive just purchased a manual ream/stack cutter that has a minimum cutting depth of 30mm. Ie. the closest the backstop can get to the blade is 30mm. I could manually move what im cutting closer to the blade but just wondering if there is a common workaround to keep it all square. Like some...

Hi guys, I realise each print shop might have there own preferences. But what would you consider a pretty standard/acceptable way of indicating in a press ready pdf file, where a hole should be drilled? For example say for a 3mm hole on 50x50mm wedding favor tags.

Hi guys, Im new to the forums and wondering if you can help me. I design posters, invitations etc and am currently doing a wedding. I need to do 100 saddle stitched ceremony booklets. I wasnt planning on purchasing one of those booklet collators or anything like that. I was assuming with my...