Sledhed wrote:
Graham,
We deal with about a dozen printer's and none of them take jpeg's in the files. I called a couple of them and talked to the prepress manager's, both said it was due to the compression on the jpegs. When the file is preflighted they only see if it's at the proper resolution, not what compression level was used. As you know, a tiff is losless so they don't have to be concerned with the compression level. If a high res color proof is made you would see any jpeg artifacts, but it's cost prohibitive to make high res proofs for every page of a 4/4 or a 1/1 book.
I'm glad to see you don't use TT fonts, although some of the newer rips will now take TT fonts.
Graham,
We deal with about a dozen printer's and none of them take jpeg's in the files. I called a couple of them and talked to the prepress manager's, both said it was due to the compression on the jpegs. When the file is preflighted they only see if it's at the proper resolution, not what compression level was used. As you know, a tiff is losless so they don't have to be concerned with the compression level. If a high res color proof is made you would see any jpeg artifacts, but it's cost prohibitive to make high res proofs for every page of a 4/4 or a 1/1 book.
I'm glad to see you don't use TT fonts, although some of the newer rips will now take TT fonts.
Interesting. I have never come across that, but then again, I have never come across a printer that doesn't insist on a hi-res contract proof, but maybe we work in different markets. Much more common these days is to print from my high resolution pdf files, so that issue does not arise, although I still embed jpgs. I always use tiffs until I produce the repro files and only change to jpg's if I need to keep the file size down. I have used TT fonts over the years and they do tend to work, it's just the emboldening is patchy (rather than using the bold version of the typeface).
Graham
