help - printing business cards with color bleed

Big Perm-dizzle · 05-14-2004, 12:27 PM

I am sure some might know the answer but the sure fire way to get it right is call your printer.....

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Keyare · 05-14-2004, 12:34 PM

Just do a 1-up and your printer should be able to lay them out however they want. Some use imposition software and some do manual - either way - you're probably not saving them time by doing 4-up because they'lll preferr their own methods.

DeleteYourself · 05-14-2004, 04:49 PM

Yup.

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defjoe · 05-14-2004, 04:56 PM

or call and ask them

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3howards · 05-14-2004, 06:10 PM

yeah, you need to ask them. my printer actually has 2 plants about 1 hr 45 min from each other. business cards that have close registration are run at the other plant and are setup 12-up. if they run the job at the closest one (to me) they run it 2-up. so you really have to ask your printer. also, my biggest pet peave when i worked there was getting jobs that were camera-ready and really weren't. i'd set it up the way they run it and make sure your output is correct. if not, then it's not camera-ready.

designByJen · 05-14-2004, 08:28 PM

Thanks! Another problem is that the client is in CA and I'm in CO. He wants to have the printing done there. I guess I could call his printer. Or should I just give him 1-up and let him deal with it? Where do the designer's responsibilities end when the client chooses his own printer? Just curious how other designers would handel it.

Mickey · 05-14-2004, 09:01 PM

Set it 1 up and send it out with all the images and fonts. The printer will most surly set it up for press. I have never set things more than one up, if you do the printer will most likely change the layout anyway!

help - printing business cards with color bleed

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