MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual page 387

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Printing from FreeHand is straightforward whether you want to output your
document to a desktop printer or engage professional prepress services for
color-separated high-resolution output.
You can select a variety of printing options, depending on the output device that
you will use. You can preview print settings onscreen, apply prepress options for
color separations, print only specified objects or layers in a document, generate a
document report for use by a prepress service bureau, and set other options.
If you are working with a limited budget, or want to first print black-and-white
or color proofs of your illustration, use a 300- to 1200-dpi (dots per inch)
desktop printer. For these tasks, often you can use output devices available
at your workplace.
If you require accurate, high-quality color reproduction, use a high-resolution
PostScript output device available through a service bureau, commercial printer,
or other service provider. Be sure to check with the provider to find what files and
prepress options are needed to create the output you have in mind. Also, keep in
mind that using an external service provider requires additional time in your
production schedule.
You can output your document to a disk as a PostScript file that contains all of the
print options you have applied. In some cases a service provider will use the
PostScript file (rather than the FreeHand file) to create the printed document.