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Technical Support Documents

This page provides links to numerous documents and archives, which will enable you to download and print information designed to assist in the proper formatting and submission of your files.  Every printer has their own specifications and settings.  To ensure that your job flows through production, please review this important information.

Search TPH Technical Docs. - If you need additional help you can search through our technical documents here. Tech_Search

Customer Submission Guides - These four informative, step by step guides are a must read for anyone preparing files for production. We have customer guides written for the following four subjects.

New! PrintPilot User's Guide - This guide covers in-depth procedures for installing and using PrintPilot. PrintPilot is The Printing House's automated workflow software for creation of PDF for computer to plate submission. This complete guide also covers file naming conventions, PrintPilot submission requirements, and recommendations to maximize your computer's performance.

Disk and PostScript Submission Standards for Computer to Plate - provides submission standards for CTP and contains information on supported file types, media, and general file preparation.

PostScript Submission for Computer to Plate PostScript - This guide is our guide covering postscript file submission. The preferred submission of pages is now PDF, pages are first printed to postscript files, then run through Acrobat Distiller to generate high resolution PDF files for production. This guide covers the first and most important part of that process. We recommend that every job be submitted as Fat PostScript or PDF. Either of these formats must be prepared exactly to our specification using our settings. Also for postscript and PDF submission see our Quark Postscripting Page for the most current settings and information.

Internet Transmision for Electronic Files - This guide covers internet transfer of files into TPH for production. Customers may use our free FTP server to send and receive documents via the internet. This informative step by step guide will tell you all you need to know.

EskoFots, CopyDots, or DCS - If you have any one of these formats used in your publications, this page is essential. It covers the description and usage of these formats as well as the very important handling and procedural issues that must be followed. If you aren't sure what all this means, it is important that you read this page to learn about these formats. EskoFot_CopyDot

Acrobat Distiller Settings and Information - This archive contains The Printing House’s our settings and information for making industrial strength PDF files for computer to plate. DOWNLOAD

FlightCheck Ground Controls and Information - This archive contains our settings and information for checking your graphics files and print jobs using Markzware's FlightCheck software. DOWNLOAD

Quark X Press Settings and Information - This archive contains our settings & info for making industrial strength composite PostScript files for computer to plate. DOWNLOAD

Pagemaker Settings and Information - This archive contains our settings & info for making industrial strength PostScript files for computer to plate. Pagemaker Postscripting Page

Hard Disk Management and Information - This archive contains our settings & info for maintaining a healthy optimized hard disk. DOWNLOAD

PrintPilot Site and Information - This is a link to our exclusive PrintPilot PDF workflow software. This secured customer's ONLY page requires a password to access, call a sales person or customer service rep for access code. PrintPilot_X2b.sit SysCheck_X2b_app.sit

Mac OS System - Updates, Downloads, Utilities Etc. - This page contains links, information, and downloads pertaining to recommended Mac OS versions, settings, utilities, configuration and maintenance issues. Also, this page addresses several known issues and problems related to graphics software programs.

Submission_Stuff.sit

AutoPurge.sit

Trash_Desktop.sit

TPH_Color_Profile.sit

ResEdit_.sit

MacHaspUsbDD.sit

Quark_4.1_to_4.11.sit

ATM_Light_4.6.sit

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