In QuarkXPress, you can set up output styles for PDF and PostScript files, such as fat composite or thin separated.
Output styles make it easy to create consistent PostScript and PDF files and help to reduce errors when configuring the Print dialog box.
- In QuarkXPress, select Edit > Output Styles.
- In the Verification list, select None, PDF/X-1, or PDF/X-3.
- On the Pages, Metadata, and Hyperlinks tabs, select the options that you want.
- On the Compression tab:
- For color and grayscale images, in the Compression box, select Manual ZIP (8-bit), and in the Resolution box, select 300.
- For monochrome images, in the Compression box, select CCITT G4, and under Resolution, select the Compress Text and Line Art option.
- On the Color tab:
- In the Mode box, select Composite.
- In the Setup box, select Composite CMYK and Spot or a similar DeviceN color setup. (To access color setups in QuarkXPress, select Edit > Color Setups > Output).
- On the Fonts tab, select the Download all fonts option.
- On the Marks tab, in the Registration marks mode box, select Centered.
- On the Bleed tab, select 0.25 inch.
- On the Transparency tab:
- Make sure that the Ignore transparency flattening check box is cleared. (Required).
- In the Transparency flattening resolution box, select 300 dpi,
OR
If job quality requires higher resolution, select 600 dpi. You can then choose to either retain the 600 dpi resolution from QuarkXPress, or use Prinergy (Optimize pane) to downsample the 600 dpi image to 300 dpi.
Retaining the 600 dpi resolution from QuarkXPress provides a better quality result than using Prinergy to downsample. The 300 dpi anti-aliased result will render better than the 300 dpi result that you get from QuarkXPress
- On the OPI tab, select the options that you want.
For a thin workflow, select the OPI Active option, and do not select the TIFF Include Images, Low Resolution, and EPS Include Images options. - On the JDF tab, select the options that you want.