Printers

Question 1

What’s a camera ready copy?

Answer 1

Made on commonly used software program in the printing industry: EPS, PDF
Must use correct colour setup/space: if printing convert colour to CMYK
The layout must be created at the correct final sized to be printed (no scaling)
Text or graphics that bleed of the page should be extended off the doc boundary by at least 3mm or 1/8 inch
Fonts should be converted to vector graphic format
Raster or image files are to be created at high resolution settings (300 DPI) - no scaling

Question 2

CMYK

Answer 2

Cyan Magenta Yellow Key

All colours should be converted to CMYK when printing for brighter colour

Question 3

RGB

Answer 3

Red Green Blue

For documents to be viewed on monitor

Question 4

Vector graphics

Answer 4

Composed of paths
Smaller file size
Can indefinitely zoom in on lines and curves and will not get propitiatory larger
Modifications will not effect quality of image