Need help preparing your file for production and printing at Hammer? We provide you with a step-by-step guide to creating a document that is prepared correctly and produces a final product that exceeds your expectations.

Please feel free to use the e-mail response in the FAQ section to ask any additional questions you may have.

To further assist you with your File Preparation needs, we have made available for download a Preflight Checklist. Simply download the small (6k) PDF file and print it out from your desktop or workstation. Fill out all the appropriate fields and send it to Hammer with your files for trouble-free production.

preflight.pdf: file size 6kb.

Preparing for Output

Computers let us make changes up to the last minute, and we usually do. Before you rush your job to Hammer, take a few minutes and check to see that you have...

	Your name, phone, and job name on your job disk(s).
	A laser-printed proof of your job for use as a reference.
	The information needed for the imagesetting job form, including the correct fonts and graphics file formats.
	Verified which company issued each font (important, since different companies use some of the same names).
	Included or specified those easy-to-forget fonts in your graphics, logos, and other EPS files (they may use only a letter or two, but they still count).
	Included custom-kerned fonts or other special fonts.
	Prepared a job disk with copies of the material you want to imageset, including necessary graphics files.
	Placed (copies of) graphics files where your layout files can find them (make new links if necessary).
	Set up your "Print..." and "Page Setup..." dialog boxes to reflect the way you really want the job imageset, not the way you happened to print your last proof (you want 100% size, yes?).
	Not selected crop marks in the dialog boxes if you have already drawn your own crop marks in the layout.
	If sending a PostScript file, you set up your entire job correctly (size, emulsion down, crop marks, etc.).

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