Tired of paying “bad PDF” charges? Are pulped print runs turning profits into losses?
Seriously, if you have to deal with a printer at all, P.F.Prep can help!
What is Prepress? It’s simply everything that needs to be done to your artwork and files in order for them to print properly. Prepress is aligning your design to a printer template with precision and accuracy. Prepress is color correcting your artwork so that it prints clearly and beautifully. Prepress is creating emboss or foil files, or building an opaque white ink layer for when you’re printing on metallic stock. Prepress is taking files from one job and adjusting them for another, cloning and retouching as needed. Prepress, as P.F.Prep sees it, is making sure that your project prints as intended and doing whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
Rafer Roberts has spent over two decades working in commercial printing and prepress where he prepped the covers of bestselling authors such as Stephen King, James Patterson, Raina Telgemeier, and Jeff Kinney, as well as the paint can labels for companies such as Sherwin-Williams, Rustoleum, and PPG. Rafer has also worked for large newspaper insert printers, factories that produce high-pressure laminates, screen printers, stationary shops, award-winning photographers, award-eschewing designers, independent bands, and small sign shops. Whether you’re a production manager for a large publishing house or a cartoonist putting out your first comic, if you’re doing anything with printing, Rafer can help!
P.F.Prep also offers limited editorial and production services. If you’re interested in Rafer’s help beyond simply getting your files ready for the printer, please ask!
Send your files to P.F.Prep and never worry about another print job again. Simply email rafer@plasticfarm.com with a brief description of your project and what kind of help you need, and we’ll get started right away.
SAMPLE PROJECTS:
From Beehive Books, Ron Wimberly’s insanely ambitious GRATNIN. Multiple printed boxes within printed boxes, trading cards with holo foil front and gold foil backs, a membership card, a guide card with blind emboss, and a thousand feet of “infinite scroll” comics printed on super long accordion folds.
From Bad Egg Publishing, MeatCanyon presents MELVIN’S MACABRE. I laid out and designed this entire book, including case cover, dust jacket (w/ flaps), and interiors.
A few of the Bad Egg comics that I’ve had the pleasure of doing production work on. So many cool creators doing so much fun stuff. Working on these books hardly feels like a job.
Logo Design: Chapo Trap House’s YEAR ZERO anthology. Hand-lettered logo design and text by me. Absolutely love playing around with this old-school design.
BOOK COVERS and BOOK COMPONENTS!
