Reply To: InDesign/Prepress Myths

I'm going to go out on a limb here as well…

True Type fonts will work and almost always have worked… people didn't use them because of the RIPs inability to process them… these days they work… but people seem to be stuck in there ways…or still own the PS Library and don't want to pony up for the opentypes for no reason

Images under 300dpi can be used… sure but in most cases people don't know where the job will be printed until the last minute so 300dpi will cover every instance. I know in my case I never know until the job is complete, and I enter imprint page details… it also depends on printed stock, which could change at the printer stage so you may never know, so why risk setting up images which are borderline at best… In this day and age file size is a Myth…

So yes 300dpi is a must.

95% of these myths are the result of the pre-press RIP either too old or converting files incorrectly or just plane falling over….