We have brochures printed for my company every month, at first it was difficult to get them printed right, now it has become a much easier task.
The print bureau imports the files that we saved on a zip disk in quark Xpress (obviously on a Mac).

The simplest file format I suggest is Tiff at 300dpi, resulting colours resemble the ones that you see when "show printer colours" option is enabled.

Now I prefer xara eps format (NOT illustrator eps) with bitmaps resolution set at 300dpi.
I advice you to follow the path I suggested in another post and disable "show printer colours" before exporting to Xara eps, because you could incur in some postscript errors.

I hope it will help you.
Luciano

p.s. check the eps file with ghostview, before leaving it to the bureau.

p.s.bis If you send me a small part of your brochure I can send you eps file to test with your bureau.

[This message was edited by Luciano on March 14, 2001 at 11:42 AM.]