A short history
Since the early 1990s, New Life Press has provided desktop publishing and electronic prepress services. Previous to that, we had more than 10 years of conventional prepress experience creating pages from waxed galleys of type, shooting them on a process camera, stripping the film into flats, and burning metal plates for the presses. We think you get the idea. Things have changed a bit but, the conventional experience provided a great foundation on which to build a modern electronic prepress service.
Our prepress service extends beyond opening and sending your files. We help you with your questions along the way as well.
2005 and beyond
New Life Press uses both Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems including OS X and XP. For example, if you send us an InDesign document, it doesn't matter to us if it was created on a Mac or in Windows. We can use it either way. Here's a list of some of our most used applications and what version we have, Macintosh (M), Windows (W), or both (MW):
- Adobe Creative Suite which includes, InDesign 3, Illustrator 11, Photoshop 8, and Acrobat 7. (MW)
- QuarkXPress 6.5 (MW)
- Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 (MW) We can take your Pagemaker 7 files but we will convert them to InDesign.
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point (W)
- Microsoft Publisher 2003 (W)
- Omnipage for converting hard copy text pages to editable electronic files (M)
Scans and digital photos
We will scan your photos from prints or slides. We have a scanner with a large scan bed that will accomodate copy up to 11 X 17 inches. Pricing is based on the size of the final scan. Contact us for pricing.
We will convert your digital photos for printing as well. If you take digital photos to be used for printing, select the highest quality setting on your camera. Remember the resolution requirements for the photo to be usable: 300 dpi for offset printing and a minimum of 180 dpi for wide-format prints. This should be the resolution of the photo at its final printed size.
Design and page layout
We will also help design and plan your project. Stop by with your copy and ideas and we'll work with you to create a project we'll both be proud of.
We can start from scratch too if you're fresh out of ideas and just need some help meeting your deadline. Whichever you choose, we're here to help.