Best suited
for the following signs:
Wide-Format Digital
Printing
Signs with a Lot of Copy
Silk-Screen Printing
How your
.PDF file can save setup expense:
For Wide-Format
Digital Printing, your file can usually print as is,
with no additional design time.
For Cut Vinyl
Graphics (typically less expensive) and Thermal Digital
Printing, your file may possibly convert to our
vinyl-cutting software, thus eliminating the usual
digitizing necessary. Whether it can depends upon the
program that created the .PDF.
Please follow the
checklist below to avoid extra setup expense.
Pre-Flight
Checklist:
Specific instructions
for making your file suit our equipment.
We can accept .PDF
files saved as Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or earlier.
No Pre-Flighting is
necessary.
Adobe developed the Portable Document Format (.PDF) to
be a self-contained document that will display on
monitors and print on paper essentially the way the
document was created, whether you are using Windows or
Mac.
For Wide-Format Digital Printing, we can easily scale
your .PDF to final size, and it should print directly
with no additional setup.
In addition to Digital Printing, Minuteman Sign Centers,
Inc. uses several other methods of outputting graphics.
They include Thermal Digital Printing (Gerber EDGE) and
Cut Vinyl Graphics.
.PDF will not output directly to these output devices.
However, depending on the program that created a given
.PDF, conversion may be possible.
For Thermal Digital Printing (Gerber EDGE) and Cut Vinyl
Graphics, please consider using one of the other
programs we list on our Digital Art page.
Please be mindful that we cannot edit a .PDF. If changes
are needed, you will need to make them in your source
program. If color accuracy is a concern, we can convert
you .PDF to an image (.TIF, .JPG, etc.), apply color
corrections in PhotoShop, and then print the resulting
file.
