Re: Printing from press--divide by 4 or 8 question

Subject: Re: Printing from press--divide by 4 or 8 question
From: Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 06:04:49 -0700 (PDT)


> It isn't Goober's job to impose signatures. The
> printer does that with
> specialized imposition software (unless they're
> doing it the
> old-fashioned way, using film, tape, and a mask, but
> I doubt that).
> However, if the printer says, "Hey, Goob, I need to
> use a multiple of
> eight pages, whaddaya want on the other four and
> where do you want
> them?" then it is Goober's responsibility to say
> what he wants. Absent
> that, the printer will make the decision. (Printers
> hate to make
> decisions, because no matter which way they decide,
> half the customers
> are going to say they're wrong and fight them over
> the bill.)

Ah, so now we get to the real answer - the printing
house can add those three blank pages without having
them be in the delivered PS or PDF file...

That was what I was after.

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Re: Printing from press--divide by 4 or 8 question: From: Dick Margulis

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