What type of font is it legal to share? What are the guidelines for sharing fonts with a printer?
PostScript: the page description language used by laser printers and imagesetters
Functions of database applications.
The design process & preflighting. The people responsible for determining if files are correct and will print correctly. Understand the purpose of preflighting.
Overprint-printing directly on top of another color or tint area
Knockout-cutting out or "knocking out" a hole or in the color or tint area the same shape as the object that will be printed over the color or tint area.
Trapping-adjusting areas to be printed or overprinted so that the adjacent color areas press misregistration won't cause white spaces
Choke-the knockout is shrunk
Spread-the object is enlarged
Clipping path
Imposition
Dot gain
What should you send to the service provider when your job is ready to be printed?
Names of image editing, page layout, drawing or vector, and word processing applications. Have an understanding of their functions. Case must be correct - uppercase & lowercase.
Scanning resolution formula: spi=lpi x 1.5 x % enlargement or reduction
Raster Image Processor (RIP) converts files to bitmaps for imagesetter output.
The three main classifications of digital type are bitmapped, TrueType and Post Script (Type One) fonts.
How should digital images be rotated?
Standard bleed size
http://www.printernational.org/what-is-bleed.php
Correct way to stylize (italicize, bold, etc.) type.
