From the course: Print Production: Folding

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Setting up the digital document

Setting up the digital document

From the course: Print Production: Folding

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Setting up the digital document

- In addition to being a folding expert, I'm also a designer and, as a creative person, it's always tempting to skip the technical production setup and dive right into the creative, with the best of intentions to make it right later. However, we all know that time gets tight at the end, and there's never enough time to focus on the details when you're up against the clock. Waiting to create a production-ready file at the end may also shift margins, change the crops on photos and line breaks, and may add an annoying and unnecessary additional round of approvals from the client, so I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily create a proper file for folding materials. Now, if you don't feel like doing this, you can always reach out to your printer for help, or download a template from foldfactory.com or another folding-related resource, but making your template is easy, once you get the hang of it, so I challenge you to give it a shot. Now, it's common to feel overwhelmed when it's…

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