Mr. Frisky's Pre-press Quiz
Now hold still - this won't hurt a bit... maybe!
Mr. Frisky wrote a few questions covering some of the more problematic areas we've encountered with client-prepared files over the years. Simply answer all the questions and click the button at the bottom and Mr. Frisky will score your quiz.
If your score is 70% or better, chances are good we won't have too many problems with your files.
A lower score generally indicates that it may not be wise to try to design and prepare your graphic files on your own.
This quiz is for informational and entertainment purposes only. No wagering, please.
1. Which of the following is the color mode most commonly used in commercial printing?
RGB
CMYK
Mode C altitude indicating
HSL
2. In commercial printing, 'bleed' refers to:
the amount of ink wasted at the edges of the press
oversaturation of a sheet of paper with ink to the point that it discolors the reverse side of the paper
printed areas of a sheet of paper that are trimmed off during the finishing process
what a pressman's finger does after getting caught in the press
3. When printing at 150 lpi, what is the optimal resolution for scanned images to be printed?
75 dpi
150 dpi
Resolution No. 9
300 dpi
4. Which of the following programs is better suited for creating vector graphics?
American Idol
Adobe Illustrator
Microsoft PowerPoint
Quark Xpress
5. Which of the following programs is better suited for creating raster graphics?
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Microsoft Publisher
Stuffit
6. Which of these is not a type of font?
TrueType
Arthur 'Font'zerelli
Type 1
7. Which of the colors below would be most difficult to reproduce as they appear on-screen using standard 4 color process printing?
8. Which of these file types would you use to place a full-color image in a design to be offset printed?
.jpg
.com
.gif
.tif
9. In commercial printing, to what does the term 'separation' most commonly refer?
distance between registration marks on the uncut sheet
the 90 day period before you go to Vegas for a quickie divorce
part of the process in which printing plates are created
a measurement of the 'brightness' of a given printed piece, determined by measuring the space between ink dots on the page
10. Which of the following best descibes 'dot gain'?
unintentional tearing of the sheet due to excess pressure creating larger perferation 'dots'
when Dorothy ate too much ice cream
ordinary expansion of a printed dot
a larger printed dot due to a decrease in line screen value ie; from 150 lpi to 133 lpi
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