Trapping

• Use trapping values of 0.005” or higher.

Portable Document Format

• Use PDF when possible.
• If PDF is not used, copy page information, photographs and graphics into one folder. Put fonts in a separate folder inside the first. Compress the entire package as a single file for electronic
  transmission or via removable media.

Proofing
Film Workflow Proofs
Final proofs must visually predict the printed job as closely as possible.
Final proofs must:

• Be in register.
• Carry standardized color bars, with the same screen ruling as the subject matter, positioned across the direction of printing, covering the full width of the image areas.
• Be identified with origin and date.
• Use inks or colorants that anticipate SNAP densities.
• Have a consistent dot gain/TVI that anticipate SNAP values.
• Be made using a substrate that anticipates the color and brightness of the production stock.
• Be deglossed.
• Include objective targets with which to measure density and dot gain/TVI.
• Be labeled completely.

Digital Workflow Proofs
Send a hard-copy mechanical, laser print or other physical
representation of the digital file with each supplied digital page.
This proof should:

• Be made from the supplied file.
• Be 100% of final printed size (tiled if necessary) and, if applicable, identified with the proof’s percent reduction or enlargement from the digital file.
• Be marked with trim, fold, and register marks.
• Indicate whether rules are FPO or to the image.
• Indicate whether linked graphic files, including photographs and special effects, are FPO or to image.
• Indicate tinted page elements that are fifth color/match colors.