Xara Photo and Graphic Designer 7 Business Card Imagesetting issues

[mwenz]

Most North American and Western European countries use PDF for professional printing. Your area printers might desire another format.

A friend in India needs to send the printers in his area EPS files with all type converted to curves. Another friend in Africa sends his printers TIFF files as that is what they desire.

So check with the printers you would be using and ask what types of files they desire to work with.

Take care, Mike

[csehz]

Mike thanks, I was thinking slightly to ask this but happy that finally asked

So briefly probably are used around also the different kind of picture file formats, but so can be also .pdf. Good to know, because at first sight would think maybe that oh that is only for text documents

[Gamerprinter]

I create and print business cards all the time. Usually I create one business card at 3.5 inches wide by 2 inches tall as a single design. Once the design is done, I create a letter size new page with Show Grid andSnap to Grid on. I cut and paste the single business card, then clone and move the card to one side to have two cards up, side by side perfectly lined up. Then I clone and drop the cloned pair beneath the first two cards. I continue doing this until all 10 cards are created. Then I select all, cut and paste all 10 cards so they are centered on the page. Then I print to my color laser. I have a one letter size sheet at a time business card cutter in house. This is my entire business card production process. It's pretty easy, really.