How to save graphics in resolution for commercial printers?

[madamtobi]

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madamtobi

 

[dominic.martin]

I'm going to take a stab at what I think is the answer. Generally
speaking, if you're producing a document for four colour commercial
output, the graphics you use should have a resolution of 300dpi. Look
at the details of the image in the Graphics Manager and Publisher will
report what the effective dpi is. Beter still, use (if it's a bitmap
graphic and not a vector graphic) software like Paint Shop Pro or
Photoshop to prepare and size the graphics before importing into
Publisher.

After a discussion in a recent thread (What happens to images in a CMYK
composite output?), we also concluded that linking or embedding
graphics created in the RGB colour space is best because Publisher will
do the proper conversion to CMYK. However, if you have been given a
graphic created in CMYK and saved as an EPS file, you can link this in
Publisher and the software will leave it untouched in the final output.

Finally, ensure that under Tools/Commercial Printing Tools/Colour
Printing that you define colours as Process Colours (CMYK) and not RGB.

There are plenty of other tweaks that may be necessary depending on the
document that you are creating. Include more detail in your next
posting and you may receive a better answer.

Dominic

 

[websmoker]

There is also another option:
in any photoeditor set the file while saving at 300 dpi setting ( that is
only possible if the picture is big enough).

You can stiil set the out put for commercial printers to RGB output and make
also PDF as RGB out put.

Then, download the software Quite a box of Trics (payd version) and distill
all the PDF files back to CMYK.
That is much quicker, depending how much pictures / graphics are in your
document.

 

[kdsdata]

Check my reply to "PUB to PDF" in this newsgroup. I suggest the use of a PDF
Writer such as CutePDFEvl.exe. You can still find it on the web.

I have recently completed a 250 page book with many graphics, many fonts,
many master pages, full auto TOC, full colour cover pages, etc., etc.

CutePDF created a 215 MB file. No trouble at all, but pay attention to my
other comments on "Download as Softfonts". If you don't download the fonts,
the fonts don't get inluded in the PDF file, and the commercial printer may
not print the fonts you want.

Our Commercial Printer sent our file to their printer with "No Scaling".
And again no problems.

Too bad the book doesn't selling as fast as we want, but I think that's
another matter. Hope this helps.