Diane
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I work in the US marketing office for a Chinese manufacturer. We design retail cartons here and then send the files to China to be printed. Sad to say; we have no contact with the printer; and usually do not see any proofs until the product is on the shelves in the stores. It's hard to know if we are setting up our files correctly or if the printer has to go into the files and manipulate them.
What is the best way to handle the die lines? I usually make the die line 100% cyan or 100% magenta and save the color as a spot color in Illustrator. If there is a process background color I make it a layer in my Illustrator file but then save the back ground as one file and the die line as another and then place as 2 different layers in InDesign.
My supervisor leaves the background and the die line in one file and then places in one layer in InDesign. Who is right or does it not matter?
Some of our packages require a Photoshop background. We are embedding an eps image in Illustrator and then placing the .ai in Indesign. I thought nested files were a no-no; is that still the case?
Thanks in advance for your advice
What is the best way to handle the die lines? I usually make the die line 100% cyan or 100% magenta and save the color as a spot color in Illustrator. If there is a process background color I make it a layer in my Illustrator file but then save the back ground as one file and the die line as another and then place as 2 different layers in InDesign.
My supervisor leaves the background and the die line in one file and then places in one layer in InDesign. Who is right or does it not matter?
Some of our packages require a Photoshop background. We are embedding an eps image in Illustrator and then placing the .ai in Indesign. I thought nested files were a no-no; is that still the case?
Thanks in advance for your advice