Tutera Printing Tutorial

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Order Shipment Confirmation email.

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Order Details page.

Once your order has been approved, you will receive an Order Shipment Confirmation email containing a download link for the high resolution PDFs you ordered.

1. Open your Order Shipment Confirmation email.

2. Click the download link under Order Shipment Details. This will take you to the order’s Order Details page on the Tutera Creator website. Here you will see all of the items in your order listed out.

3. Click File Download (2), located to the right of the product preview image. The file will likely save to your Downloads folder unless you have a different location specified in your computer’s system preferences.

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Install Adobe Acrobat

High resolution PDFs are ideal for printing on-site at your community offices. Before printing you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader DC or an equivalent PDF-viewing software* installed on your computer. If already installed, proceed to the PDF download instructions.

Acrobat Reader DC is a free product offered by Adobe for viewing and printing PDF documents.

To install, use the link below to go to the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC download page, select your operating system and language preference, and click Install Now. Follow the prompts to complete the download and installation process. Once installed, proceed to the instructions for downloading the high resolution PDF you ordered from the Brand Works website.

DOWNLOAD ADOBE READER

*The printing instructions detailed in this guide are for use with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. If using another software to print your PDF, printing the PDF at 96% of its original size will achieve the same effect.

Print

Bleeds & Crop Marks The high resolution PDFs that you receive will contain bleeds and crop marks. Bleeds are extra image added to every side of a flyer that are intended to be trimmed off after the flyer is printed. The crop marks denote where the piece is to be cut to achieve the flyer’s final size. This process provides edge-to-edge ink coverage and creates the impression of the image on the flyer “bleeding” off of the edges.

If printing on a paper size larger than 8.5” x 11” isn’t an option for your printer, or you don’t intend to cut the printed flyers down to size to remove the bleed and crop marks after printing, it is recommended that you print the flyer according to the following steps.

Blue area represents bleeds. »

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Printing without Bleeds 1. Launch Adobe Acrobat.

2. Click File in upper-left hand corner of the window and select Open from the drop down menu. Select the PDF you wish to print and click Open.

3. After opening the PDF, click File and select Print from the drop down menu.

4. Select your preferred on-site printer from the Printer (1) drop-down menu.

5. Check Custom Scale (2) under the Size tab of the Page Sizing & Handling section of the Print dialogue box. Set Custom Scale to 96%.

6. Click Print (3).

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NOTE: Flyers printed using the instructions detailed above will have a white border on the edges of the paper.

The width of the white border will vary from printer to printer.

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Crop You may wish to have a digital copy of your PDF that also doesn’t have bleeds or crop marks on it. There are many third-party tools that can accomplish this. PDF Resizer is a free, online resource that can be used to crop PDFs.

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If not already there, select Crop PDF (1) from the navigation menu on PDF Resizer’s website.

Click Choose Files (2). Select the PDF file you would like to crop and click the Open button on the dialogue box.

Click Upload files! (3) (It may take a little while for the file to upload.)

Using the PDF’s crop marks as guides, click and drag your mouse from one corner of the PDF to the other corner (4). Adjust as necessary to accurately define the PDF’s new boundaries.

When satisfied, make sure Crop to Selection (5) is selected under Action and click Crop it! (6).

Once the action is finished processing, a preview image will appear to the right of the Crop It! button. Click Download (7).

The file will likely save to your Downloads folder unless you have a different location specified in your computer’s system preferences.

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