Services
Book Production
Competitive and high quality production services for the widest range of conventional and novelty bookwork.
Outsourcing Solutions
Outsourcing to Imago allows you to tap into 25 years of knowledge and experience without the associated overheads.
Product Sourcing
A dedicated team to source the right components and materials, project manage and monitor quality and safety.
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Training & Consultancy
Imago host a broad range of courses developed specifically for publishing staff, run by industry experts.
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Colour Reproduction
Access to cutting edge pre-press services including high quality digital and CTP wet proofing from two of Asia’s leading repro houses.
Product Development
We work together with you to transform your ideas into reality and offer creative solutions to production challenges.
Freight Management
Global freight services, co-ordinating the timely collection and safe delivery of your goods to any port or warehouse.
PDF file preparation
Please click on the following link to download our
General Technical Specifications for file supply:
Imago's General Technical Specifications for
supplying files for print
Please click on the appropriate links to download our software specific guidelines for supplying PDFs :
- Creating PDFs from Quark 4
- Background document
- Step by step document
- Creating PDFs from Quark 6.5
- a) using OS 10.3.5
- Part 1 - creating PS files
- Part 2 - Acrobat Distiller 6 settings
- Part 2 - Acrobat Distiller 7 settings
- Explanation sheet showing when to use which Output mode settings
- b) using OS 10.4
- Part 1 - Creating PDF files
- Part 2 - Acrobat Distiller 7 settings
- Explanation sheet showing when to use which Output mode settings
Creating PDFs from Quark 7.5
Using OS 10.4.11 and Acrobat Distiller 8
Creating PDFs from InDesign CS2
Export to PDF directly from InDesign CS2 settings
Creating PDFs from InDesign CS3
Export to PDF directly from InDesign CS3 settings
Creating PDFs from InDesign CS4
Export to PDF directly from InDesign CS4 settings
If you need another version of Acrobat
Distiller settings
Acrobat Distiller 6
Acrobat Distiller 7
Acrobat Distiller 8
Guide to Quark Colour Mode Settings for Quark 6.5 and 7.5
PDF instructions for Board Books (InDesign or Quark)
Colour Profiles
Imago recommend that the following Fogra 39L profile is used when converting from RGB to CMYK and when proofing digitally for work that is to be printed 4 colour on coated / matt papers.
A link to the Coated Fogra39 (ISO 12647-2:2004) profile is below. The profile is from Adobe's website and is supplied together as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 software :
Fogra39L
The above profile is particularly suited for coated papers. It may be used for uncoated as well but because of the variable shades and surfaces of uncoated papers it may not be totally accurate. If the colour in your book is critical, then we cannot yet recommend a standard profile for uncoated papers and would suggest instead that the colour conversions are best handled by the repro house based on test proofing on the specific paper.
Instructions and settings for using the profile are contained in the following document :
Imago instructions for using colour profile-
