How to prepare files from Quark Xpress for Printers

Good Morning! 

Today is Wednesday in the beautiful city of Greensboro. Almost Memorial Day (long weekend). Going down to the coast of North Carolina to a small town called Southport. It is close to Bald Head Island, in case you are not familiar with it. I hope everyone has a safe and happy Memorial Day. Can't wait! God bless our troops and all of you. Today I will explain step by step to preparing your files for printing companies. 

When setting up you Quark files, don’t click on the facing pages checkbox in the document setup palette unless you have a crossover picture or artwork. It is easier for Clinton press to use single pages for our ripping program Rampage and Imposition program preps. Please make sure to include at least 1/8th (.125) of an inch bleed around the page if you have artwork or photos that need to bleed.

Once you have finished you document, go to the File tab at top and select Collect for output, this will collect fonts, links and the document into a folder for you to send to the printer. If you would prefer to make a high resolution pdf then you would got to File tab at top, select export then layout as PDF.

When the Export to PDF box pops up at the bottom make sure the spreads checkbox is UNCHECKED, the pages tab should be on ALL, then click the options button at bottom. You will see 5 tabs at the top, DO NOT CHANGE ANY THING IN THE LAYOUT INFO TAB SECTION.

Click on the HYPERLINKS tab check the boxes: INCLUDE HYPERLINKS, EXPORT LISTS AS HYPERLINKS, EXPORT INDEXES AS HYPERLINKS, AND EXPORT LISTS AS BOOKMARKS. CLICK THE USE ALL LISTS, DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO APPEARANCE.

Under Job Options: Font Option: Check EMBED FONTS AND SUBSET FONTS BELOW Put all Compression items (Color, Grayscale and Monochrome Images) on NONE.

Under the Output Tab: Color Ouput: should be set on COMPOSITE, PRINT COLORS -cmyk THE REGISTRATION selection should be off. Bleed: Put on Symmetric and type .125 (1/8th) in the amount area if you have bleed.

Under the OPI TAB UNCHECK the OPI Active box, the Press the OK and send your files to printer!