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Hints & Tips
Projective Pty Ltd "Short Run Printing" invests in state of the art
equipment and combines innovative solutions with old fashion service
to meet & exceed our customers end to end printing & document
finishing requirements. Our aim in the creation of output for our
customers is to provide quality finished documents at a reasonable
price.
Part of
this value proposition is to provide our customer with assistance in
the areas that will have the most impact to the output provided by
Projective Short Run Printing.
The ABC's
of Design for Digital Printing (Supplied by EFI) provides customers
with real information to allow them to gain the most from their
digital print partners. Please download and read this valuable
guides which will allow you to gain a competitive advantage in your
market place. Discover the hints & tips used by experts to
maximise the benefits provided by digital printing.
 ABC's
of Design for Digital Printing
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Print Shop Mail
Print Shop Mail Variable Data Printing Solution
Whether you require standard digital
printing or variable data printing, we have the solution to meet
and exceed your requirements.
PrintShop Mail allows us to
personalise your promotional communications by varying text,
graphics, barcodes, or entire layouts based on information found
in your databases. We can personalise all your promotional
documents including:
Advertisements and Magazines Brochures and Newsletters
Business
Cards and Postcards
Catalogues and Flyers
Certificates and ID Cards
Direct Mailings
Gift Certificates and Discount Coupons
Mail Merge
Letters and Marketing Mailers
Numbered Tickets
Preprinted Reply
Cards and Labels
much more !
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PrintShop Mail is a fast and
flexible variable data printing solution for the production of
simple and complex Variable Data Printing jobs, ranging from
small, medium to high volume output quantities.
Download a
"FREE" demo copy of Print shop mail
by clicking on the logo below. The Demo version of the
software will allow you to fully design your variable data
document and provide a real time view of your document before you
forward the document, fonts etc for production.
This fully functional demo will
allow you to print 25 records at a time with a watermark. To
produce pages with no limit to records and clear of watermarks,
you will need to send your file to a Print Shop Mail print
provider that has a valid
Print Shop Mail dongle (such as us).
We will charge you a
small setup fee and a click charge of $0.05 per record rendered
using Print Shop Mail (plus
standard printing charges).
We have a PDF based workflow so we will provide a digital proof of the rendered document for
approval before producing the final printed job (secure non printable PDF
proofs are supplied for all variable data jobs).
Free Print Shop
Mail Demo Version 5.2.3
(Windows OS)
Free Print Shop Mail Demo Version 5.3.1
(Mac OS 10.3.9 and 10.4 (or higher))
The following links show three examples of different types of output
produced using Print Shop Mail:
Example 1 - Targeted mail out to customers with variable content
based on input parameters
Example 2 - Name Plates / Labels for specific events
Example 3 - Targeted customer brochure
The types of output able to be produced using Print Shop Mail are
only limited to your imagination. To find out more about our variable data printing solutions, or discuss how
Projective Short Run Printing can save you time and money in the
setup & implementation of your variable data printing
requirements, call us in the new basement facility on (02) 9929 1407.
Document
Templates
Another of the valuable services
provided by Projective Short Run Printing to assist our clients in
meeting their printing requirements is the supply of a number of Adobe In Design
Templates documents. They are provided for use by Printers and graphic artists in
laying out their graphics to optimise the capabilities of the
print & finishing equipment utilised by Projective Short Run
Printing. (Impostrip Imposition, Digital Press, Duplo DC-645 etc):
Adobe In-Design Template Downloads
Note: If
the height of your business card is less than 55mm, we will
manually trim the final edge after the automated trimming process.
Please lay out the card to the top left edge of the template,
leaving space for the bleed.
The example below has a cut mark at 40mm and another at 50mm (two
commonly selected sizes) to
indicate where we would manually trim the card to reduce its
height.
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If the length of
your card is not 85mm, 90mm or 91mm please contact our office and
we will supply a template in a layout that is suitable for your
card length. Please note that the minimum length for cards
is 85mm.
The final page
size dimensions for a PDF file for each file size is:
55mm x 91mm
Business Cards - PDF size 60mm x 96mm
55mm x 90mm
Business Cards - PDF size 60mm x 95mm
55mm x 85mm
Business Cards - PDF size 60mm x 90mm
The example below
contains the Adobe Acrobat Distiller settings to use on a 55mm x
96mm business card document.
The "Adobe PDF Page
Size" field above is set to a page size of 96mm x 60mm
(Custom Page Size)
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Projective has recently acquired
Impostrip Digital On Demand for our imposition layout
requirements. The template section of this site has been
updated with standard Adobe In Design templates which suit
our imposition software and will allow us to streamline our print processes
to provide you a more cost effective and timely delivery of
quality output.
Please check this section often
as we will update the templates regularly based on the feedback
from our customers.
Impostrip Digital On Demand -
Imposition Software
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PDF
Documents
The
attached document supplied by Enfocus, describes PDF standard used
within the print industry. Projective Short Run Printing
utilise Enfocus Pit Stop Professional within our digital workflow to
ensure that we are able to manage the PDF files provided by our
customers. Please download the following PDF standard document
to gain some insight into the standards utilised to create & manage
PDF documents.
PDF Standards
Adobe Distiller
Settings
Short Run Printing require that
customers supply us with print files that meet the standards defined
above. Once of the simplest and inexpensive ways of doing this
is to utilise Adobe Acrobat
Distiller with pre defined settings to produce your print ready PDF
files.
The following information is
designed to assist customers in supplying correctly formatted PDF
files to ensure faster processing of jobs and reduce the potential
of error.
Incorrectly formatted PDF files may
result in additional charges or the return of your files which could
delay production of your job.
If you have any queries please
contact the studio on 02 9929 1407 or on the above e-mail address.
Install the
ProjectiveShortRunPrinting.joboptions file. This file
contains all the parameters needed to produce high quality PDF
files.
This can be obtained from your Account Manager or downloaded here:
Place the file in the Acrobat
Distiller settings folder:
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Windows: "Documents and
settings> All Users > Documents > Adobe PDF > Settings"
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Mac 0S9: "Applications > Adobe
Acrobat > Distiller > Settings"
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Mac OSX: "Users > Shared >
Adobe PDF > Settings"
Launch Acrobat Distiller. Select
ProjectiveShortRunPrinting job options.
Open Postscript file. Acrobat Distiller will automatically begin
distilling a PDF file in the location specified.
PDF Checklist
FONTS - Are ALL fonts embedded?
CROP MARKS - Are all marks 5mm
away from trim edge?
BLEED - Is there 2.5 mm bleed?
COLOUR - Are all 4-colour
elements CMYK? Are all black elements GREYSCALE? Are spot colours
set up correctly?
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Duplo DC-645 Information
Attached is a PDF file that
outlines the basic workings of the Duplo DC-645. It includes with
Layout rules for Print Registration Marks, Minimum & Maximum
dimension requirements for gutters & borders and provides details
on Barcode Layout.
Duplo DC-645 Document Finishing
Machine - Cuts, Slits, Creases (Scores) & Perforates in a single
pass
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Bar Code Font (Used with Duplo
DC-645)
The Code 39 barcode font (windows
TTF) used by the
Duplo has been
attached to assist in the layout process where applicable.
Note: The barcode is not
used in all template documents.
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