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    Buying Print? - Why prices vary

    Having worked as an estimator at litho and digital printers for many years I agree with most of the reasons in the initial post. One reason you missed off your list is mistakes by estimators. I've known some to forget to allow for paper within their quote! But in my view the biggest factors...
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    A0 size (33x46 in )poster - images in size 14x9 in- 300dpi

    It's worth mentioning that you don't really need to go as high as 300dpi on an A1 poster. That's because anybody viewing the finished poster would be looking at it from a much further distance than somebody who was looking at, for example, a leaflet or booklet. So any pixelation would be less...
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    Supplying spot colours for print

    The printer will need it supplied in such a way that he can produce 5 plates (if it's a litho job). That's one each for your 4 colour process (CMYK) element and one for the 032 red. So on your artwork the 032 red element should be coloured up as your "5th" colour 032 red and everything that...
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    E.P Cover Design

    I can see Ronnie Corbett in there!
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    Lazy printers

    Stephen, to say printers are "lazy" is completely unfair (and, frankly, insulting to us). Most printers file requirements are quite straightforward. For a typical colour job we don't ask too much - we just need your file to be the correct page size, high resolution and with bleeds and in CMYK. I...
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