Are set-up fees legitimate charges?
Every color in every graphic must be separated by an artist in a program like Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Each of these colors are then outputted to film. These films are used to make screens or plates for each color in the graphic. All of the screens or plates have to be aligned to the printing machines. Color changes require cleaning screens and/or plates and realigning of machines. These parts of the set-up use material and are very time consuming.
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