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File Preparation

At Edwards Brothers, our goal is to be a valuable partner in ensuring that your vision is realized in print. That starts with making the prepress process as efficient as possible. Towards that end, we have established a set of production standards that will improve efficiency as your work moves through prepress. Please use the links below to access these standards.

Ideal PDF
PDF/X-1a Standard

A Note About Trapping

Edwards Brothers prefers non-trapped color files. All trapping will be completed during the rendering process before going to press. If your files have special trapping requirements, please contact your Customer Service Representative and we will work to accommodate your request.

Michigan 1-800-669-8322 | North Carolina 1-800-359-3175

Application Plugins

Please refer to Ideal PDF for PDF instructions on how to create a PDFX standards compliant PDF file. Below is a list of plugins that contain our file settings to be used for the creation of PDFs.

Windows Macintosh
Adobe Acrobat Distiller Adobe Acrobat Distiller
DISTILLER_8.zip DISTILLER 8.sitx
InDesign InDesign
INDESIGN_CS2.zip
INDESIGN_CS3.zip 		INDESIGN CS2.sitx
INDESIGN CS3.sitx
Quark Quark
QUARK_6.zip
QUARK_7.zip
QUARK_8.zip 		QUARK 6.sitx
QUARK 7.sitx
QUARK 8.sitx
Prinergy Refiner Prinergy Refiner
Prinergy_Refiner_PPD.zip Prinergy Refiner PPD.sitx