What’s the problem with designing a job in Microsoft Publisher?
No problem, if you’re planning to print garage sale leaflets, party invitations or school assignments at home. However, if you want to design a leaflet or business card for a commercial printer to use, forget it. Microsoft programs such as Publisher and Word don’t have the extra features that are required for professional print production, and were never designed for this purpose. Microsoft Publisher retails for around $180 while Adobe Creative Suite costs over $3,000, so expecting Publisher to do the job is unrealistic. Colours in Publisher and Word files are always RGB (web colour), but printing companies use the CMYK format (four colour process). Templates are usually the wrong size (eg American letter instead of A4), with fold and trim lines in the wrong place, while images and fonts are low in resolution. These problems all result in a poor quality print job. When we receive Publisher or Word files, it’s usually faster to re-design the job than to fix the file, and in most cases t
