Photo specs for Indesign or photoshop?

[shanniev]

My company is working with a printer in China, as they have for years and will not change, so I have to try and figure out what they need done.

This is what they claim needs to be done with each file:

1. Insert all PSD files, no longer than 133%, which means if your box is 10", then your PSD file can not be larger than 13" ----what does this mean??

2. Trim/crop the size down to 100-120% for each photo---does this mean the excess part of the photo that is not seen? Is this done in indesign or photoshop?

3. All fonts and page numbers need to be setting----does this mean for the automatic page numbers? What about the fonts?

If anyone has any clue what they could be referring to please help!

[BobLevine]

Why not ask if they’ll take a PDF? These instructions are flat our insane.

[shanniev]

Unfortunately, because they have the printer color match clothes they need the INDD file 😕

[Bill Silbert]

Are you sure that they mean % and not ppi? Saying that something should be no larger than 133 ppi (most likely at 100% size in the InDesign file) makes a lot more sense than 133%.

[shanniev]

They already said 300dpi at 100% for print. So I'm still very confused.

[Bill Silbert]

I think that you need to address these questions directly with your printer. Discussing it here will most likely lead to a number of different theories—any of which would need to be confirmed by your printer anyway.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

It sounds like the remnants from an ancient workflow. The earliest versions of InDesign and Quark did not provide Effective Resolution info, so I think they are worrying about image scaling dropping the effective resolution below an acceptable threshold.

So if you are literally placing 300ppi images and you scale them over 133% the effective (output) resolution will drop below 225ppi and you will start to see the affect of the scaled output resolution: 300/1.33 = 226.

Of course if you were to place a higher resolution image, the effective resolution might easily stay above the desired resolution threshold. A 600ppi image scaled to 200% would have an output resolution of 300ppi. So in the end they are really asking you to keep the Effective res over 225ppi

[shanniev]

This makes total sense. Most of their work seems backwards to me at times and they refuse to change how they do things.

Thank you for explaining this in a clearer way

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