For print production, should I be working in RGB or CYMK?

So one mentioned that I should always work in RGB in Illustrator. Is that true?
All my projects are for print BTW,,

If you work in RGB, you run the risk of assigning colors that simply do not exist in CMYK.
*nabbed from http://gotprint.net/g/showStaticPage.do?page=rgb-scmyk.html

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Standard form for printing production order

hi experts,
             i need the standard script for printing production order.

Hi
Check out this Forms
PSFC_DOC_LINKS   Print production order
PSFC_PRINT_LAY    Production order printing
WE_FERT_VERS2    GR slip for production order
Reward Points if it is Useful.
Thanks,
Manjunath MS

What software for print production (magazine)? InDesign or other...

I am new in the field of print production. Do you have a favorite software for this field? I do have CS3 but is the Web premium and it does not have InDesign. Should I buy it? Or, is there another one more user-friendly and easy to work with printing companies.

Hi Numacr,
This is a question with a potentially long answer. I am a professional designer and web developer. I've done all forms of print production and web production.
In a nutshell... the industry standards change from time to time. Fortunately for you, they've recently changed over the past few years. Now, unless you have publications or ads going to a printer in a small town somewhere with older presses and such, you will be just fine with the Adobe CS3 design suite.
Industry standard software are as follows:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Unless you're doing large format printing (ie. banners, billboards, etc.) you are pretty much able to send a high-res PDF file. Sometimes you can even send the InDesign or Illustrator files to the printer.
I'd also suggest joining an InDesign group online... go to Adobe's website to check it all out.
The other option for a page layout program is Quark, but I wouldn't recommend it. They've only recently come around to improve their software, but it's too late. Pretty much everyone is now using Adobe InDesign.
Hope this helps.

SetFileName for print to file doesn't work

I have a questions about print to file with java.awt:
With Java 1.4, when I use setFileName in the JobAttributes class, as soon as the user clicks on Print to File, this file name shows.
However, with Java 1.5, this file name does not show, a different file name shows. The reason why I want my file name to show is that I need a specific extension.
I do need to use java.awt, I cannot use javax.swing, because for printing to the printer, I need to call my own paint.
Please help.
Thanks a lot!

Well, I am saying:
JobAttributes jobAttributes = new JobAttributes();
jobAttributes.setFileName("out.ps");
But even though this filename worked in Java 1.4 for printing to file, in Java 1.5 and Java 1.6, it doesn't recognize this filename, it always makes it "out.prn".
Please help!
Here is my total printing code:
class PrintableComponent implements Printable
public PrintableComponent()
public void print()
PrintJob printJob;
PrinterJob printerJob;
String string = new String();
JobAttributes jobAttributes = new JobAttributes();
PageAttributes pageAttributes = new PageAttributes();
PageFormat pageFormat = new PageFormat();
jobAttributes.setDialog(JobAttributes.DialogType.NATIVE);
jobAttributes.setFileName("out.ps");
pageAttributes.setOrigin(PageAttributes.OriginType.PRINTABLE);
pageAttributes.setPrintQuality(PageAttributes.PrintQualityType.HIGH);
printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
printJob = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getPrintJob(Basics.ananyaCurves, null, jobAttributes, pageAttributes);
if (jobAttributes.getDestination() == JobAttributes.DestinationType.PRINTER)
if (pageAttributes.getOrientationRequested() == PageAttributes.OrientationRequestedType.PORTRAIT)
pageFormat.setOrientation(1);
else if (pageAttributes.getOrientationRequested() == PageAttributes.OrientationRequestedType.LANDSCAPE)
pageFormat.setOrientation(0);
printerJob.setPrintable(this, pageFormat);
printerJob.setCopies(jobAttributes.getCopies());
printJob.end();
try
printerJob.print();
catch (PrinterException printerException)
System.out.println(printerException);
printJob.finalize();
else if (jobAttributes.getDestination() == JobAttributes.DestinationType.FILE)
string = jobAttributes.getFileName();
printJob.end();
canvas.paintFile(string);
printJob.finalize();
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pagenum)
throws PrinterException
Graphics2D g2D = (Graphics2D)g;
g2D.translate(format.getImageableX(), format.getImageableY());
if (pagenum > 0)
return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
canvas.paintForPrinter(g2D);
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
Thanks for looking at this!

Error message when uploading book for printing. All images are jpg and rgb. Could they be too large to upload? What size is required and how do I reduce size in Aperture?

I receive an error message when I upload my book for printing. Not sure what the problem is. All my images are jpg and rgb. Could they be too large as it takes about 15minutes to upload to Apple. How do I reduce the size of the image in Aperture?

Hi Leonie,
Thanks for your reply.
Error message below. The preview is fine . I can discount the first 2messages as its a new computer so plenty of disk space and upload doesn't seem to be interrupted. I have uploaded to iphoto before. have tried to upload 3times with the same error message. I had to photo my slides with a Kaiser Baas photo maker , which apparently doesn't scan but takes photos in megapixels of the slides. I am wondering now if the format is incompatible though they are jpg files or the colour type wrong. The image files are around 1-3 mb each and 72 ppi. I think I will now scan them properly with a scanner to 300dpi anyway to improve quality.
Apple talks about image files not being too big for uploading but gives no sizing of what too big is?
Error message
1. Upload Error. Loss of connection or file corruption during order upload may cause an incomplete order. Resubmitting your order usually resolves this issue.
2. Low Disk Space. If your computer is running on low disk space, your files may be assembled incorrectly. Create more space by deleting unused files.
3. Unreadable PDF file or image files. Files are sometimes assembled incorrectly due to CMYK or Grayscale color space. Use the RGB color space for best results.

Color settings in Photoshop for print production

Does anyone have experience and/or knowledge about the color settings in Photoshop?
We have business cards that will be printed using offset printing (4 color printing) and Spot printing (Pantone), and need guidance in configuring the settings.
Please help!

Oh, but by the way, Photoshop is an odd choice for business cards and a troublesome one for spot colour. Illustrator or InDesign perhaps.

Converting to CMYK color profile (for print) in raw format

I am looking to self publish a cookbook in lightningsource. They need the photos in cmyk format. When is it best to convert to this color profile from rgb?
I have bridge CS5
What I'm doing currently:
I click on my .arw image file and select "open in camera raw" which brings me to an editing screen. At the very bottom is says rgb, and 240 ppi
I need 300 ppi at least and cmyk color.
Now I know how to change these things in Photoshop, but I was taught that editing it in camera raw in bridge is better to preserve quality for print.
Should I just edit it in raw and then convert to 300 dpi and cmyk color in photoshop? Or is there a way to do this in bridge? Whats the difference? Any advice will help, trying to make my pictures look amazing in print

Correct me if I misunderstood anything!
You are on the right track except for the ppi story. The ppi settings just are a figure expressing the amount of pixels stored in 1 inch, without the width and height figures of the image itself you can't do much with it and just changing this figure is not changing the total amount of available pixels.
For instance create a new document at 300 ppi and use the international paper size A4 (21 x 29,7 cm). The amount of pixels is 2480 x 3508 (roughly the result of an 8 MP dSLR.
Use the image size option in PS and be sure to not resample (meaning creating new pixels or deleting pixels to alter the original file size that is 24,9 MB). Now change the amount of pixels to whatever you like. If you increase the number the width and height decrease, and vice versa. Yet the amount of pixels and file size stay at 2480 x 3508 and 24,9 MB.
But with the specs of wanted width and height for the end result of 300 ppi starts making sense.
For instance you have a image at the size of a post stamp and an image at international paper size (A4) and both are 300 ppi. The small post stamp size would be in cm about 2 x 3,5 while the A4 size has about 21 x 30 cm width and height.
So you can imagine having both needed to be printed at the A4 size in 300 dpi (printers work with dots, hence they use dpi - dots per inch- and while not the same they both often use the 300 figure and stand for pretty high quality result) the A4 sized original will meet the wanted standards without problems while the post stamp would have to be resampled to the new A4 size and when having still 300 ppi needed there would be a lot of interpolation (creating new pixels to match the new size) and this would often result in pixelated or worse quality print result, because PS has to use guess (albeit quit educated guessing) work to add more pixels that are needed to reach the new dimensions.
ACR has the advantage to set the ppi by default at 300 but as said, as long as you don't alter width and height of the original it is just a figure without any significant importance until you know the complete specs for the output source.

What is the best high res image file format to use for print

Dear All,
I'm working on a 300 + page catalog, and I was wondering what would be the best image format to use on the catalog. I thought png was the best since it supports background transparency and all, but for some reason I'm not able to export it once I change the image to CMYK ( since I need CMYK for print ). Should I save all in eps. instead? Please help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Jack

.psd is the best... supports everything you would want for print. PDF does also, but takes a little more knowledge to use properly.
.png is recommended when using Word etc.
EPS is obsolete.

Problem printing production order.

Hi guys
this is my first post. i have a problem printing production orders.when i give a print. its printing only 2 or 3 line.what should i do to add some more information to my production order.and where can i view the print preview of my production order.

Hi,
The production order can be printed in CO02 screen itself.(Ctrl+P). To define what to be printed, you need to identify/define the correct list in the transaction OPK8. Once the correct combination is selected for the required plant and order type, this can be printed in production order.
But for the preview after printing, you can view the spools created in SP01.
Or T code CO04N or CO04 is meant for printing production orders
Need to do the setting in OPK8
First check the configutaion link below and then come back.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/en/3a/72369adc56d11195100060b03c6b76/frameset.htm
Regards,
R.Brahmankar

Safari won't use custom page margins for printing

I'm using Safari 4.04 on Snow Leopard. Here's the problem in a nutshell: I'd like to print pages that I can put in a three-hole-punch binder, without the holes going through printed content. In other words, I simply want to set a custom left margin for printing. Should be simple, right? Apparently, not if you use Safari.
OK, as far as I can tell, here's how it's supposed to work (and this is how it works for me in every browser except Safari):
In the "Print" dialog box, click the "Paper Size" drop-down menu (which defaults to "US Letter"), and scroll down to "Manage Custom Sizes…". Create a custom paper size with the desired margins. Now you should be able to select this custom paper size when you print.
This works fine in other browsers (of course you may need to select the custom size from the "Page Setup" menu, but in Safari 4 this is apparently integrated into the "Print" dialog). In Safari, however, the custom margins are completely ignored. A simple, but frustrating, bug …
This has been a known bug, as I've seen it mentioned in other forums, such as:
http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/117342-safari-4-0-3-printing/
But Apple has yet to fix it.
OK, for those who are wondering, there are two workarounds I know of, neither of which is totally satisfying:
1) When setting the custom paper size, define the paper itself as narrower than 8.5 inches; for example set it to 7.5. Safari doesn't ignore the actual paper size, it just ignores the margins you set. But unfortunately this will result in an increase in both left and right margins, not just the left margin.
2) As I teach Web design, this is the kludge I figured out on my own: Set a user-defined style sheet for Safari. First, create a plain text document consisting of this:
html {
margin-left: .5in;
(Of course, set the margin to your desired width. I'm using a half inch here.) Save this style sheet, calling it something like "safaristyle.css". Now, in Safari's "Advanced"preferences, set this as your custom style sheet. This works great, but unfortunately if you leave Safari on this setting this will result in an increase in the left margin when you view Web pages as well as when you print them. So you can select the custom style sheet only just before printing, and then set it back to "None Selected" when you're not printing.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that Apple still hasn't fixed this little bug?
Does anyone out there know of a better workaround? Thanks for listening.

Set them automatically based on what criteria?
If you just want to set them programatically, then as the Help indicates, use the Printing:Margins property to set those values.
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Cropping ans sending out for prints

I've been using Aperture for a while. I've cropped many pictures. I've tried to read aas much as I can baout how the crop in Aperure works, but I've not seen to much.
I cropped a picture. RAW file from D50. Picture of a person on Portrait mode on the camera. I cropped some extraneous side stuff. i didn't use constrain. I sent the photo out via Aperture for a 16x20 print. I got the print and it looks great but, the photo doesn't cover the full paper. There are two whit borders down each side. Why dould it print to the full paper. Is this due to cropping? Any way to tell?
If I use the constrain feature, say to 8x10 , the largest available, would this make a difference in my print?
Should constrain always be used? Pic a size. What if I select a constrain crop of 4x6, and order and 8x10?
Last does anyone know a site to maybe explain the cropping feature of Aperture?
Thanks

the short answer is yes. if you're going to send out for prints, you should always crop to the final dimensions of your print with the constrain option checked.
the term here is "aspect ratio", which refers to the ratio of the width to the height (or the height to the width, depending on the photo's orientation). you don't really have to worry about the fancy math, just type in the final dimensions of your print in the crop tool and constrain the tool to those dimensions. the great thing about Aperture is that you can order a 4x6, 5x7, and 8x10 of the same photo and get them cropped exactly like you want even though they have different aspect ratios. you just create a different version for each crop size and order the appropriate print sizes for each version.
good luck,
scott
PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) MacBook Pro 2.0GHz

I can't activate my serial number for adobe indesign cs5 "The serial number is not valid for this product"

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Best way for printing

Hi,
I have developed a card designer tool having features of adding text and image on card with many effects(sepia, negative etc..) , But when I print the quality of printed card is not good, I used ImageSnapshot class to print and used dpi 300.
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Premkant

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JPEGs for an external printing service.
JPEG is a lossy format, meaning some image data is lost with every save to JPEG format. That means that best files for print submission should be non-lossy TIFF or PSD files when possible (e.g. when you are delivering files on CD/DVD).
That said, prints of well shot images from files saved once as JPEG-12 quality are indistinguishable from prints of the same files saved to TIFF.
As you go down the JPEG quality scale from 12 to 1 quality gets progressively worse.
You probably should review the various comments on the thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=756016&tstart=0
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Make-To-Order Production for Service Products

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has anyone some experience with SAP R/3 (SD, CS, MM, FI,CO) Make-To-Order Production for Service Products?
Does the Make-To-Order Production Scenarion work for Service Products?
Is there any documentation about Make-To-Order Production Scenarion for Service Products?
Regards
Klaus

It works using transaction OSID to define service products and using requirements class and type to control the creation of service orders or projects for sales document items. All business services can be implemented using these service products.
We have inplemented Customer Center Solution based on this approch for a Atlas Copco (http://www.atlascopco.com/us) with cutomer center in more tham 70 countries.
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Compressors and Generators
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downloaded application about a week ago from Creative Cloud and the option for print production is not there. How do I gain access to this area?

disregard my previous message- I found the menu options and have checked off the "Print Production" option so it now shows in my menu.
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For print production, should I be working in RGB or CYMK?

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