From the course: Print Production: Packaging
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Preparing your job for the printer
From the course: Print Production: Packaging
Preparing your job for the printer
When you're finished designing your package, it's time to send it to the printer. So of course you want to make sure that you've followed the printer's specifications. You certainly want to make sure that you've provided adequate bleed. You may find that especially on a large carton, you need to provide actually larger than your old standard eighth of an inch bleed, so double check and make sure you've given enough bleed. And here's something you don't usually do when you submit a print job to a printer. You want to turn your text to outlines. Now the reason for that is a carton might be holding a product that's going to be distributed around the world, so you don't really know for sure where that's going to be printed. So if you're a designer in the US, your file may actually be sent out of the country in order to be printed. Of course, you want to check the printer's specs. But just don't be surprised if they ask you to outline the text. So I'm going to jump to Illustrator and show…
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