Guidelines for Input Media: General Information
- To avoid schedule delays and additional charges, please submit all specifications and copy together, including art, illustration negatives, digital files, and any needed proofs. Late work will be considered as corrections.
- Provide a pagination list that notes frontmatter pages, part openers, unfolioed and blank pages, index pages, tips, wraps and inserts with your specifications. Include all special instructions, such as those that pertain to screens and dropouts.
- Be sure to supply head and gutter margins with all disks, negatives or copy. Pages with non-standard format require accurate corner marks to indicate placement by head or gutter. Use reproducible (black or red) ink to note corner marks on your reflective copy.
- To eliminate all white space at the gutter on double-page spreads, place the images flush to the inside edges. Up to a 1/16” gutter margin may be used on adhesive and fiberbond books bulking over 1-1/4” to permit more of the spread image to be viewed.
- Please be sure to note the existence of bleeds as part of your print specifications. (Note: A bleed is any image that prints to the trim, or is less than 3/8" from the trim edge.) Bleed images require a larger paper size than non-bleed images for the same trim size. Therefore, bleed pages must be identified in advance so that the proper sheet size can be ordered. Extend the trim by 1/8" on all bleed pages.
