General Concept of prepress

Prepress technicians and workers are responsible for the first stage, preparing the material for printing presses. They perform a variety of tasks involved with transforming text and pictures into finished pages and making printing plates of the pages. Printedinchina.com pay close attention to this stage to make sure correct and high quality products can be produced.

Laser Proof

We strongly advise our clients to make black and white laser proof before transforming the final artworks to us. If you are not sure the correctness of the artworks already transformed to us, you can ask for a set of black and white laser proof, especially for books with large page count.

We also can produce full color laser proof for the purpose of checking the artworks.

Spot colors

Tools we use for spot colors press is as follows:

- PANTONE formula guide solid uncoated

- PANTONE formula guide solid coated

- PANTONE color bridge coated

Mock-Up

Binders folders boxes, printing or packaging products as above require a mock-up before the final proofing or press. We provide both digital mock-up and physical mock-up to help our clients to decide the final specification of the products. We will try our best to use the real stock to make the mock up. Normally a mock-up is hand-made , and will cause extra cost.

Digital Proof

If your catalog newsletter or other printing products do not have very demanding requirements on color, you can choose digital proof, which is quicker and 50% cheaper, and new tech making it getting more and more close to the traditional press proof now.

Color Corrections

To create perfect colors you want is our final goal. If you are not sure of your artworks, we can make improvement or correction to your artworks according tto your laser proof or description until you are satisfied with the color and effect.

Press Proof

Here we are talking about traditional press proof, which provided by us for clients to confirm the layout and color. Those proof are the last time proof which is most close to the final products. Normally we will keep duplicate copy which we take to the press machine for our engineers' reference.