I am making my first attempt at preparing something for print--a simple 4 colour business card. I worked up my design using Minimiro’s CMYK Color Model Template. If I understand things rightly (I've been through Gary's recent tutorial), I can send the printer a 300 dpi CMYK tif and this is all that should be required? I'd appreciate it if someone can conrirm. The design incorporates a transparency and a gradient fill.

Colour issues are still confusing to me. I set my workspace to simulate printer colour and I hope this is reasonably accurate since it's all I have to go by. But I see that when I display my cmyk tiff image--in Irfan for instance--of course I don't see the colour corrected for print, but when I bring the tif into Xara1 and simulate printer colour, it looks okay. So I guess this will somehow all come out okay from the printer?

Any comments and help much appreciated.