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malicejp
I would absolutely LOVE to figure this out:
I work in prepress for a printing company, and we often receive Pub
files from clients for full-color business cards, which we print on our
Xerox DocuColor 240. Right now, to set their business card multi-up on
an 11x17 sheet for printing, I am jumping through serious hoops. As has
been already mentioned in this forum, Publisher refuses to create the
crop marks when I am printing biz cards multi up on a sheet. I need the
crop marks so the bindery people won't have a cow, so I am
1) making a PDF or .ps of the card, 1-up;
2) opening the PDF or .ps in Illustrator and correcting the color,
since the PDF was RGB;
3) placing the new file multi-up in InDesign, with crop marks I have
drawn in manually.
What I would really love to do is use the Impose function that comes
with our Xerox, which allows me to automatically set up a file multi-up
with crop marks on any size sheet I want, with any gutter I want.
Here's the problem:
When I print to the Xerox, I can't choose a custom page size 3.5 x 2. I
have tried to use "custom postcript" in the page setup / paper size,
but it always defaults to a letter-size sheet. So now my Xerox thinks I
want to impose a letter-size sheet, instead of a business card. I tried
all that garbage Microsoft suggests about adding custom page sizes, but
that doesn't work.
So is there an answer? I'm guessing not (just like there isn't an
answer to why Publisher won't print ANYTHING multi-up on a 12x18
sheet). Any thoughts? Suggestions? Rants you would like to share with
me about how frustrating Publisher is?
Thanks!
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I work in prepress for a printing company, and we often receive Pub
files from clients for full-color business cards, which we print on our
Xerox DocuColor 240. Right now, to set their business card multi-up on
an 11x17 sheet for printing, I am jumping through serious hoops. As has
been already mentioned in this forum, Publisher refuses to create the
crop marks when I am printing biz cards multi up on a sheet. I need the
crop marks so the bindery people won't have a cow, so I am
1) making a PDF or .ps of the card, 1-up;
2) opening the PDF or .ps in Illustrator and correcting the color,
since the PDF was RGB;
3) placing the new file multi-up in InDesign, with crop marks I have
drawn in manually.
What I would really love to do is use the Impose function that comes
with our Xerox, which allows me to automatically set up a file multi-up
with crop marks on any size sheet I want, with any gutter I want.
Here's the problem:
When I print to the Xerox, I can't choose a custom page size 3.5 x 2. I
have tried to use "custom postcript" in the page setup / paper size,
but it always defaults to a letter-size sheet. So now my Xerox thinks I
want to impose a letter-size sheet, instead of a business card. I tried
all that garbage Microsoft suggests about adding custom page sizes, but
that doesn't work.
So is there an answer? I'm guessing not (just like there isn't an
answer to why Publisher won't print ANYTHING multi-up on a 12x18
sheet). Any thoughts? Suggestions? Rants you would like to share with
me about how frustrating Publisher is?
Thanks!
(e-mail address removed)