Collecting Fonts for Printer

[jdavison@hayhouse.com]

Is there a way to collect adobe fonts if you are working with a printer that doesn't have Cloud?

Some of our printers are not able to use these fonts.

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

The short answer is absolutely no!

The longer answer is that since you can embed the fonts in the PDF file (preferably a PDF/X-4 file) that you send to the printer, there is no good reason to send any fonts to a print service provider.

Printers should be competent enough to perform prepress functions and print directly from properly-prepared PDF files. Sending source files, fonts, and other assets (linked images, artwork, etc.) was and continues to be a recipe for disaster!

I will also add that if your print service provider doesn't have licenses to Adobe Creative Cloud, there is no way that they can deal with your source files created with any even semi-recent version of Adobe application software. Any license to Adobe Creative Cloud or Acrobat Pro DC comes with access to the Adobe Fonts Service.

[Bil27875251uniz]

The directions that are remembered for the crate with the printer sawgrass vs epson are only for the fast set up of the printer.