The Village Press prepress department is completely digital. Our primarily Macintosh based department can handle most versions of industry standard page layout and imaging software, however, PDF is our preferred format for file submission. Please read our Recommended Workflow for complete details.
If Village Press will be making final changes, scanning & placing photos, or will be responsible for making future changes, it may be more appropriate to provide native page layout files. If this method is being used, please keep the following things in mind.
Fonts:
Include all fonts; never assume your font will match a Village Press font.
Images:
Include all electronic images except FPOs.
100% Hard Copy:
Village Press checks it's proofs directly from your supplied hard copy. We are much more likely to catch possible problems when 100% hard copy is supplied. Pages should be tiled if necessary. Stable, tape, or glue hard-copy together to show back-up orientation where applicable.
Crop Marks:
Make your page layout document the actual trim size. Do not draw your own marks. If you have to draw your own marks, please specify them as registration color. Making your document actual trim size allows for inpagination. Crop marks should be offset 1/8".
Scans:
Village Press offers top quality scanning services; however, if you choose to do scans yourself, please follow these guidelines: If images are to be printed in four color process, save the scans as jpg with the image quality set to 12 maximum in CMYK mode, not RGB! You can also save your scans as Photoshop eps or tiff; however we prefer jpeg. Do not save images as separated eps's (DCS) because it will result in file format translation costs.
Lines:
Do not use hairline as a line weight. Designate the proper weight in points. This hairline weight looks much thicker on low-resolution printers than on image setters and may not show at all.
Bleed:
Village Press requires 1/8-inch bleed. Don't forget to include the bleed in your final PDF file.
