Welcome to Riverside Graphics

• Working with Color
• Envelopes
• Paper Weights and Sizes
• Fonts
• Tips for Saving Graphic Files
• Sending in a Job (file formats, images, fonts)
• What should I look for when receiving a proof?
• When My Job is finished, how do I pay for it?

If you have any questions not answered here or something that needs clarification, please feel free to ask us. We can be reached by phone (312.372.3766), fax (312.372.7233), or email (orders@riversidegx.com).

Font Tips	TYPESTYLE EXAMPLES
	-San Serif -Serif -Script Service bureaus experience more problems in dealing with customer fonts than with any other problem. This problem could easily disappear if users knew a little more about the nature of font usage. Just by following a few simple rules, you could take away most of your font headaches and save money by eliminating troubleshooting charges!
	KNOW YOUR FONTS
	Some fonts have the ability to be made bold, italic, bold italic, etc., but others do not. Rubber Stamp and Shelley Allegro, for example, cannot be made bold. Although you are able to choose the bolding option for any font, that does not mean that every font can be drawn with that option. Sometimes, your laserprinter will even try to produce a bold on a font that doesn't have bold as an option, but the Linotronic imagesetters and other high resolution output devices won't be fooled. They will either print nothing, substitute courier, or give you some other surprise outcome. If you don't know which weights a specific font has, check the documentation that came with the fonts when purchased. The Shelley fonts are probably the ones most often misused in this manner. Popular typefaces for weddings and other formal announcements-designers (or their printing providers) often find their delicate curves too thin to reproduce without breaking up.
	USE THE RIGHT PROGRAM
	If you have a lot of type in your layout, you should choose a program that was developed to handle type well. Adobe Illustrator, for instance, would probably not be your best choice. This program is primarily used to create and manipulate graphics. Although it is very good for that purpose, Illustrator does not give you the same flexibility with typography as QuarkXPress or PageMaker. Type elements are often incorporated in Illustrator graphics, and rightly so, as many graphics include typography. But if you are laying out a newsletter, stick with Quark or PageMaker
	SEND THE FONTS WITH YOUR JOB
	Riverside Graphics has hundreds of fonts; unfortunately, we can not possibly own all of the hundreds of other Bitstream and knock-off fonts that are available. When you send us a job, please send along both the printer and screen fonts for each font used in your Macintosh job. On the PC, send both the PFM and the PFB for each font. Because of the nature of TrueType and Multiple Master fonts and their compatibility problems with imagesetters, we do not support their use. If you have used these fonts in your job, you must PostScript the file.

	Different grades cover different ranges of weight: Bond Usually 16# for forms, 20# for copying and 24# for stationery. Text Ranges in weight from 60# to 100#, but the most common weights are 70# and 80#. Offset Usually a 50# to 70# stock. Coated book Generally goes from 30# to 70# for web, 50# to 110# for sheetfed. Cover Comes in 60#, 65#, 80# or 100# weights.

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