Why in my day, things were camera ready!

[Gravity]

Clearly this is an outdated term, but oldschoolers still use it. I find myself using the term "press-ready", but even that's not accurate when referring to a file that will be printed digitally. So what the heck should I be calling a file that's ready to go to the printer... "printer-ready"???? Sound off!

[doubting_thomas]

"I think it's as print-ready as I can get it, but my phone # is xxx-xxx-xxxx
for when it gets to pre-press because I don't have your printers/presses
in my office to test jobs out on."

We say "press-ready" here, which means we won't be charging for any
prepress work on the job, and that file would usually be a PDF. We don't
have a term that's the equal of "camera-ready" in this company.

[budafist]

I guess we call it approved and ready to go!

[tZ]

I've heard and called files press ready and I'm what most would call young,lol

[jimking]

Not long ago a client handed me a floppy disk and said "here's your camera ready copy" "what gives" I say, he says "print it out on your laser printer and shoot it" I said, "Ok". :p

[Gravity]

gotta love that prepress humor:D

[PrintDriver]

Print-ready files is most current where I work. Never seen one though. :D

["Technical" Terry]

I still use the term camera-ready when I need something to scan. Clients often just have a printed sample and no digital art. I need camera-ready for simple logos and whatnot. Even when I give explanation for what I need, I still get something that looks like it was folded in someone's pants pocket and run through the washing machine. Maybe for my purposes I could update the term to scan-ready.

[MikeHun]

Currently "camera ready art" can still be applied to photography of original art through medium format cameras ie: Rollei and Hasselblad DSLR's.
If one were to drum scan then, still again either illustration boards or color transparencies can be "camera ready"
The clients comment about floppies and laser output dates the process, Hot wax anyone?