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- Which applications can you manage in prepress?
QuarkExpress, FreeHand, Photoshop, Acrobat (PDF), InDesign, Word, Power Point. Graphic softwares'list gets longer and longer and GECA always tries to be up-to-date by increasing the softwares used by our clients or their agencies.
- Is it necessary to provide films?
Not at all. Since 1996 GECA has been equipped with "computer to plate" (CTP) technology, allowing lithographic plates to be produced directly from the computer, thus saving the cost of the films. Films are nowadays used only for special works (eg. UV spot varnish).
- Which support should I provide you with?
PDF, QuarkExpress, FreeHand, Photoshop, InDesign files saved on CD or DVD or by uploading them on our FTP server.
- Can you make corrections on the material we provide you with?
In order to guarantee the client´s surety we do not usually make any correction on the files we are provided with. Files sent us have usually been verified and corrected by the client or by their agency. Nevertheless should the client ask us to, could we certainly make some little last minute correction.
- How can I give my consent to print? Should I sign some document?
Once you have sent us the files, our prepress department will make a colour blueprint of your work. The blueprint is realized through your same file and technology we will produce lithographic plates with. It is therefore a trustworthy copy of the finished work, except for chromatic outcome. The blueprint is not a real colour proof. The blueprint is then sent or handed to you by our commercial staff, so that you can check foliation, texts, graphics, index, bleeds etc. If everything is ok, you will just have to sign the first page and send the blueprint back to us. At this stage we can realize the plates and print your work.
- What's the difference between blueprint and color proof?
Colour proof, often also called "Cromalin", is a printed sheet made through a technology simulating the colour effect of a real lithographic machine. Proof colours are used as parameter to respect during the printing process. Colour proof is usually provided us by the client or their agency together with the artworks. Colour proof can be relevant to the whole work or only to some pages, maybe the ones with particular pictures for which chromatic outcome would be especially important. The blueprint, which is realized by GECA after receiving the artworks, is a sort of proof version of the finished work. It contains all pages, folded according to the real sections. It is however printed with a technology that doesn´t simulate the effective chromatic effect and it is realized on a special offset paper for blueprints.
- If I have no time to sign the blueprint can you print the work nevertheless?
According to our quality procedures the signed blueprint is an essential document to proceed with the printing process. Anyway in case of particular urgencies with no time to send you the blueprint we can have the ok by e-mail. We send you the work in PDF format and you give us approval. This is however a less sure system than the ordinary one.
- Do you accept only Macintosh files?
No. Nowadays most applications within the graphic sector are available also for Windows. We can therefore receive and work with no problem Xpress, InDesign and PDF files created by a PC. There are still some limitations in case of files created with Word or PowerPoint, which have to be analysed case by case.
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