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Printing Double sided leaflets
My daughter has asked me if I can set out some double sided leaflets for her to get printed. I don’t normally do this kind of work but as she’s my daughter how can I refuse 😕
I’m assuming I need to produce a two page pdf – one page for each side of the leaflet – but how do I set these out? do I need to produce crop marks or do I just produce each side of the page at actual size within a pdf? Anyone?
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Phil,
It all depends on what printer you are sending these two….If its some one online with mentioning any names they would normally require a 3mm bleed all the way round.
When designing leaflets myself I would set the page up 3mm bigger than the actual print area and then leave what I call a 5mm safe zone all the way around the actual document before designing, its fine to let colours run into this 5mm area but you dont want text going in there.
Let me know what size you are after and I will see if I have a preset template. A number of the online printers have templates that you can use that are set to the right size.
I hope this helps.
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I do a lot of these in Corel and I do them the same way as Harpreet. Make sure to embed all the fonts in the PDF dialogue and that the jpeg setting is top quality. 3mm bleed is fairly standard with printers. I also set it to CMYK with the ICC profile box ticked.
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Forgot to mention if your using illustrator make sure you outline the fonts….i guess thats same as embedding in corel.
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Philip sent you Facebook message
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As stated above, always allow a 3mm bleed for the printers to cut down afterwards.
Set colours to cymk no rgb!to avoid any colour issues.
Be careful how close to the edge you place text, might look okay on screen but…..
Don’t worry about setting up page spreads, the printer will impose the pages.
PDF 2008 with crop marks is pretty safe setting.Thats the basic help – if you need more info PM I was in commerical trade for 20yrs.
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…six years late Colin but sound advice.
When we do litho print runs we do a bleed of 1mm if the colour runs to the edges on anything under A5, and up to 3mm bleed if doing things like takeaway A3 menus…and account for this when placing items near the edges.
No real need for bleed if there are white backgrounds on pages if the truth be told.
Artwork – supply it however you want really. PDF, JPG or EPS – most places don’t care. Even RGB or CMYK…they all rip the artwork anyway in-house.
Dave
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions and advice 😀
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All colours CMYK
All images CMYK 300dpi
Flatten any gradients or transparencies.
3mm Bleed as said with crop marks.
Output to PDF, if you use Corel you can set the bleeds and crop marks in the PDF process.
Select convert all fonts to curves to avoid font problems.
Un-select preserve document overprints. -
quote Tim Painter:All colours CMYK
All images CMYK 300dpi
Flatten any gradients or transparencies.
3mm Bleed as said with crop marks.
Output to PDF, if you use Corel you can set the bleeds and crop marks in the PDF process.
Select convert all fonts to curves to avoid font problems.
Un-select preserve document overprints.Why just 300dpi when most litho print will output at 600dpi…300 is pretty low for crisp text and photographic work IMO. You also don’t need crop marks or CMYK.
Just from our experience or printing around 50,000 prints a week and there is no set rule.
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Obviously specs for supplying AW are apparently a waste of time.
I think I had 1 page printed once 🙄
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I also print a few leaflets each year, I use Fairprint in Dundee (they advertise in the sign press) and I send them pdf files. If you use Corel you can easily ‘publish to pdf’ I would set it in the pdf dialoge to ;
Use document colour settings
Output colours as native
Object compression to ZIP
convert text to curves,
Bleed limit to 2 or 3 mm
Crop marks
Security can be left.All image can be 300 to 400 dpi, this is ample for photographs
Text will be vector sstuff so resolution not relevant
and scan which is line work should be at least 600dpi
Images and photographs set to cmyk and make sure your colour management is set up correctly
Each side should be on a separate page
Any image should be 2 or 3mm beyond the page edge for bleed
When you publish it will produce a 2 page pdf, just send this off.I also use Cute PDF and print to this driver to produce a pdf – ensure that when you print that ‘download Type 1 fonts ‘ and ‘Convert True Type to Type 1’ is OFF. This convert to curves when you print.
Printing to cute has the advantage of smaller file size but will effectively flatten by converting anything under a transparency or drop shadow to a bitmap. Depending on the rendering resolution this may make any text under the transparency jagged, this not an issue if you publish.
I use both methods for litho out put or digital depending on job (images etc only need to be 100 to 150 for digital) and files go to several recipients from FP – Print United – Ashby Trade and more – never had an issue.
Alan D
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