Electronic Prepress Department

Client Guidelines For Electronic Prepress

We encourage you to understand Thomson-Shore's procedures and requirements for preparing and submitting files.

All guidelines are provided in Adobe .PDF file format.

If you are having trouble downloading a PDF file, please refer to our PDF Troubleshooting page. Also, a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is available from the Adobe website.

About...Preparing and Submitting Clean and Trouble Free Files PDF ( 44KB) (7/27/00)
About...PDF PDF (37KB) (7/21/00)
About...P-Files. PDF (64KB) (12/9/99)
About...Digital Bluelines PDF (20KB) (3/12/01)
Proper Use of Digital P-file Scans PDF (40KB) (7/27/00)
Configuring & Using Acrobat Distiller 5.x PDF (320KB) (5/21/01)
Configuring & Using Acrobat Distiller 4.x PDF (256KB) (3/16/01)
Configuring & Using Acrobat Distiller 3.x PDF (131KB) (3/16/01)
EP Data Sheet for Text PDF (67KB) (3/8/01)
EP Data Sheet for Cover & Jacket PDF (64KB) (3/8/01)
PS Conversion for PC Quark PDF (228KB) (9/9/01)
PS Conversion for MAC Quark PDF (84KB) (9/9/01)
PS Conversion for PC PageMaker PDF (241KB) (9/9/01)
PS Conversion for Mac PageMaker PDF (74KB) (9/1/01)
Supported Removable Media PDF (39KB) (3/9/01)
Supported Applications PDF (48KB) (5/29/02)
Scanning Techniques PDF (46KB) (7/21/00)
Submitting Application Files PDF (73KB) (11/15/00)
Submitting Art for Digital P-File Scanning PDF (128KB) (7/27/00)
Submitting Clean and Trouble Free Text Files PDF (95KB) (4/7/99) (also HTML)
Submitting Postscript Files PDF (33KB) (11/06/00)
Submitting a Test Job PDF (79KB) (4/7/99) (also HTML)
Thomson-Shore's Adobe Type Library PDF (4/7/99) (also HTML)
Connecting to our FTP server PDF (41KB) (3/9/01)
Output-Ready PDF Guideline PDF (58KB) (3/9/01)

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