Asif Lodhi wrote: >Hi, > >I might sound stupid but I would be _really_ thankful if you guys >could tell me what I am going to need (the US printer's profiles, >monitor profiling, etc.) if I want to do the composition in scribus >and have it printed by a US printer. It's most likely going to be a >newspaper printing related job. Actually, I did get the request to >quote but had to refuse because of my engagemnent with the other >on-going project. > > > I'm not sure that in general there should be a lot of differences from Europe to the US if you're dealing with someone with modern equipment. In this country there have been several mergers, so that now there are fewer individual companies. Our local newspaper (Louisville, KY) is part of Gannett. I looked up their site and found a PDF you can download that explains their specs for electronic submissions:
http://www.courier-journal.com/cjconnect/howad.htm There is a place to click for the PDF. There also was a link to get info about how to submit electronically on that page, but the link was broken. Some particulars: "The Courier-Journal operates on a MacOSX platform and supports the following formats: Native Application (Collect for Output), PDF, Tiff (not TIFF/IT), EPS, and JPG." PDFs -- "The Courier-Journal accepts ads submitted in PDF format. When preparing your PDF, include crop marks indicating how the ad should be cropped." "The Courier-Journal prints at 100 lines per inch." CMYK: "All ads should be delivered in CMYK color space ONLY. Do not build ads in RGB, Lab, or Spot Colors." "Photographic images should be prepared at a resolution of 200 dpi at full size. Higher resolution will not increase image quality." "Line art, such as bit-mapped logos or scanned text should be prepared at 1200 dpi at full size. However, we highly recommend that these elements be sent in vector-based, such as illustrator eps." "All fonts used should be Type 1 Postscript. TrueType fonts are not supported." "The following applications are supported and kept updated to the latest version: QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, and Macromedia Freehand." Obviously, you would have to check with the individual press. Greg
