“Poor Quality-low-resolution images, no bleed, no embedded fonts, spreads when single pages are required.

We asked John, The ESP Operations Manager, about some tips when submitting artwork to prepress… What are the most common challenges you find with submitted print artwork?

Imposed sheets from the ‘Elegance’ project Tips on preparing your artwork for print Ripping: The print job is then processed as a PDF in readiness for plate setting. Imposition: They then create imposed PDFs from our supplied PDF (see image below) to maximise print efficiency and minimise plate usage-less print time + less plates = less cost! Quality control: They check our PDF artwork for low-resolution images, CMYK colour space, colour profiling, and bleed settings. We send our finished artwork over to the Prepress team at ESP, who then perform the following tasks: Many thanks to them for lifting the curtain on the printing process and giving up their valuable time. The Affinity Workbook team dropped in on our print partner (ESP Colour, Swindon, UK) to see our German language Workbooks hit the press and find out how it is done. When the writing and art-working was complete (and signed off!), the next stage began-the print run. We also worked with some amazing photographers and digital artists from all around the world to bring you the rest of the projects-so a big thank you goes to Emi Haze, Timothy Poulton, Jordan Gaunce, Mark Ivkovic, Paolo Limoncelli, Bodo Bertuleit, Steven Randolph and Johny Åkerlund. Sean Power, from our QA team, worked through the book to check it was all up to scratch as well as checking all the downloadable content worked to follow along with the tutorials. Ian also worked on the art-working of the book, along with another of our creative team, Ian Upcott. Neil, along with Ian Cornwall from our creative team, directed the overall look and feel of the book. James also contributed a project to the book, as did our Art Director, Neil Ladkin. The Affinity Photo Workbook has been edited and written by our Head of Documentation Andy Capstick, with technical writing support from our in-house photo expert James Ritson. Jordan Gaunce's 'Grilled Cheese Pull' project featured in the Affinity Photo Workbook

Affinity photo work book