When you've finished creating your design, you'll need to do a few things with your fonts to be able to send them to your printer correctly.
Typically, printers ask that you just package a duplicate out of all the original font files contained in the documents with all of the other files that you are likely to be printing, to ensure that in case something goes completely wrong with one or more of your respective fonts they are backed up. By doing this, when they open your documents, they are able to remake the documents and files from scratch if there is a problem.
In addition, they'll ask that you do what's known as "outlining" your fonts. In essence, this turns the characters of each and every font into paths in lieu of actual type, similar to a drawn shape in Illustrator. By doing this, every time a file is opened, the program program isn't looking to call up a font, because it's only recognizing a shape, as well as the issue of missing fonts be side stepped.
There are other detailed main reasons why (mostly to do with the real difference between rasters and vectors), you should flatten Photoshop files so that your printers are able to see exactly what the final image should look like, so send over a layered file along with any fonts you employed in creating it.
However, our recommendation is that, even when you're laying text into a Photoshop register for printing, that you simply create it in Illustrator after which you drop it into Photoshop. It may take much longer and be a bit of a pain but the quality you get on the finish will be much, much better.
Although we have covered the basics first it is best practice to find and speak with a printer before you start work. This is because each printer will have their own way of doing things and this will effect your overall outcome. It also helps decide what package to design in!
Typically, printers ask that you just package a duplicate out of all the original font files contained in the documents with all of the other files that you are likely to be printing, to ensure that in case something goes completely wrong with one or more of your respective fonts they are backed up. By doing this, when they open your documents, they are able to remake the documents and files from scratch if there is a problem.
In addition, they'll ask that you do what's known as "outlining" your fonts. In essence, this turns the characters of each and every font into paths in lieu of actual type, similar to a drawn shape in Illustrator. By doing this, every time a file is opened, the program program isn't looking to call up a font, because it's only recognizing a shape, as well as the issue of missing fonts be side stepped.
There are other detailed main reasons why (mostly to do with the real difference between rasters and vectors), you should flatten Photoshop files so that your printers are able to see exactly what the final image should look like, so send over a layered file along with any fonts you employed in creating it.
However, our recommendation is that, even when you're laying text into a Photoshop register for printing, that you simply create it in Illustrator after which you drop it into Photoshop. It may take much longer and be a bit of a pain but the quality you get on the finish will be much, much better.
Although we have covered the basics first it is best practice to find and speak with a printer before you start work. This is because each printer will have their own way of doing things and this will effect your overall outcome. It also helps decide what package to design in!
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