Colour Management - Friesens Press Profile

To learn more about Colour Management, Friesens has published a booklet titled Understanding Colour Management. This is a helpful guide to understanding and implementing Colour Management. Right click the link and select save to download the PDF.

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We have made Friesens Press Profile available to help file creators manage their colour files. This allows you to get predictable colour results, ensuring that the print matches the file.

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Preparing PDF Files

In most cases Friesens preference is to receive PDF files - and offers a discount for doing so. Friesens has written a series of guides to help you prepare print ready PDF files. Each of these guides include setup instructions for Acrobat Distiller as well as specific instructions for individual layout applications such as QuarkXPress, PageMaker and InDesign. These instructions are available for Macintosh or Windows.

SmartPrep

If you want to take some of the worry out of creating PDF files for submission to Friesens, check out SmartPrep. SmartPrep is a software package that simplifies the creation, checking and transferring of PDF files to ensure they will flow through smoothly and quickly.

Preparing Electronic Files

Friesens has written a basic set of guidelines to help you prepare your electronic files. These guidelines cover many issues, from fonts and typography to illustrations and defining colours. Following these guidelines will assist you in providing complete and accurate files that will merge efficiently with our workflow and minimize turn around time.