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The FSC stuff stands for Forest Stewardship Council.

If you click on the logo on our home page we have now posted a page explaining what the FSC accreditation means to the Russell Press. Alternatively you can go straight to the page at http://www.russellpress.com/FSC_accreditation.html

In short though, its a way of certifying that a particular paper comes from a sustainable source, where the forests are managed to protect wildlife habits and respect the rights of local communities. This is done by monitoring the production process from start to end and involves inspection and auditing of the land from which the timber and pulpwood originate and tracking it through all the steps of the production process until it reaches the end user.

All products carrying the FSC Logo have been independently certified as coming from forests that meet the internationally recognised FSC Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship. For a printed product to carry the logo it must be printed on FSC Paper by an FSC Certified Printing Company. We have achieved this certification.

Hope this helps?

Hello.

I've just noticed on your webpage that you have an FSC logo, which I believe is something to do with 'green' issues. Can you tell me a bit about how this works and why you have gone for this?

In accordance with our environmental policy, we have been using vegetable based inks for over the last five years.

Hi

Can you confirm that you use vegetable based inks?

Hi Gforry
Even better than cheap you can actually get one for free! Scribus is open source, free software that you can download from: www.scribus.net. Its a serious desktop publishing program and like all of the other paid for versions has a steepish learning curve. Its also available for Mac and various Linux distributions. Give it a try!

If you really want to spend some money then www.serif.com has some DTP software that is reasonably priced.

Good luck

Keith

Hi
I want to produce my own work using a desktop publishing program. I'm on a [very] limited budget, can you recommend anything? I use a PC running XP.

Thankyou

Hi Dorothy

For some reason Microsoft decided to change the default behaviour in Word 2007 to output blank lines in Mailmerge documents, even though previous versions of Word had always supressed blank lines by default.

There are two ways around this the first being the more straightforward:

1. In Word 2007, when Mailmerging there is a new option to insert an "AddressBlock", this places an item on your page called AddressBlock and if you right-click on this you can edit the properties to match the fields in your database. The default setting using this option is for blank lines to be supressed which is what we want.

2. You can use a conditional "if then else" setting to check for and omit blank lines. This is more difficult to do than the above and requires some programming knowledge. This uses an  If...then...Else field construction to test for the existence of data in the field that may be empty. For the true result (eg not blank), have it insert that merge field, followed by a carriage return and then the next merge field. For the negative result, have it insert the next merge field

{ IF { MERGEFIELD field1 } <> "" "{ MERGEFIELD field1 } [Enter]
{ MERGEFIELD field2 }" "{ MERGEFIELD field2 }" }

You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { } and Alt+F9
to toggle off their display.

One other point if you are referring to labels (rather than say a letter Mailmerge) then turn on your show/hide button and you'll see two marks in your first label. Don't start at the paragraph mark. Start at the lower mark, it looks like like a small circle with 4 line marks. Update your labels and complete the merge, this should supress blank lines.

Hope this helps.

Keith

Hi Jonathan

We would prefer to have the UV varnish as a separate PDF file.

If you supply the PDF with the varnish setup as a Spot colour, then our CTP software may apply trapping to the varnish plate - because it would treat the spot colour as part of the actual printed job.

Keith

Hi there,

I've got a quick question...

When sending you files for printing a business card with spot varnish - is it best to send it to you as two files - one pdf with the card artwork and one with varnish layer. Or, all in one pdf file with the varnish layer set as a designated spot colour?

Cheers,
Jonathan

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