Pdf for print

Hi,
I sometimes create artwork for printers who i will not have any communication with and so was wondering if some of the more experienced people here could give me some guidelines on the settings to use for publishing to pdf from illustrator.
I'm basicaly looking for the safest settings in the pdf output from illustrator so that the printers don't have any issues with the file and we get a quality finish when printed on their end.
Thankyou!

Although one settings would not fit the needs of different printers, "Press Quality" and "PDFX-1A" pdf presets can be a good starting point and then refine it further based on specific requirements (add printer marks, set destination profile to the one supplied by printer or choose one which is closer to you printer's printing condition, etc.)

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In the "Feature Tutorials/Help" linked from the top of the main page of the Forums: Feature Tutorials / Help
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I'm far from an Illustrator expert, but let's see if we can gather som more information form you that might help me, or someone else, figure out what's going wrong. Can you post a screnn capture of the arwork in Illustrator so I can see what the gradients are and how they're positioned? Use the little camera Icon thing in the toolbar above the message editing space on the web page.
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I am also trying desperately to convert my CMYK colors into a grayscale so that when I print the document the printer only uses K (and C=0 M=0 Y=0)
And I saw this bit of info you wrote a few months ago. I am working working with photoshop CS4. I tried to follow it but I found the following difficulties. Hope you don't mind me writing over your text.
RGB image --> Grayscale
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Place image in InDesign doc.
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So then I say OK so.. let's use the Multichannel document instead, which it actually seems to print on K only (while CMY=0), it only allows me to save as PSD. and when I try to place it on Indesign... I have a message saying that this file is using an unsupported colour space, only RGB,CMYK, lab, indexed, and bitmap are supported by the photoshop filter
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Hi,
This forum is amazing!
This may be a super obvious question but I can't work it out.
Is there a way to create a pdf that organizes the pages in the correct order for printing?
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pages2 &19 together, etc.
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Everything that Peter has said
If you supply a file that is done like
20|1
2|19
18|3
16|4
etc.
The printers might charge you more for prepress time, as they'd have to separate the pages again to impose.
You don't know what machines they have, how they want to impose it or if they are going to perfect it or not. You don't know what size the macine is or the plate size or if they have only 2 x 2 colour machines.
I am with Peter. I would not trust a printers who requested work sent like I have illustrated. I would run as far away as possible from a company that requested this. A printing company that can't impose a 20 page document is crazy, shouldn't happen.
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ghf232 wrote:
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