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Prepress Guidelines

Utilities>> Usage>> Pictures

All images must be in CMYK Color Mode >> NO RGB IMAGES
(Exception: if your images are ONLY Black & White, DO NOT save them as CMYK. Save them in GRAYSCALE Mode)
TIFF or EPS images ONLY (Do not send Jpegs, Picts, Gifs, etc)
Do not save TIFF files with “LZW Compression”
Save Photoshop EPS files with BINARY Encoding
All images should be 300 dpi resolution (or 1200 dpi resolution for B&W line art)

SCALING IMAGES:
Your images need to be 300dpi at THE FINAL DIMENSIONS YOU INTEND TO USE THEM. If you enlarge your image 200% after you bring it into Quark, your resolution is now half, or 150dpi. This resolution is considered low and should not be printed. Also, a low dpi image cannot become a 300dpi image by manually changing the resolution. IT MUST be rescanned.

LINKED IMAGES:
Confirm the status of all linked images before you submit your files. No image link status should display “MISSING” or “MODIFIED”. All images should display a status of “OK”. If images display either “missing” or “modified”, update them by clicking “Update”, browsing your desktop for them and then selecting them by clicking “OK”