308: Thou shall clean up the pasteboard before sending a job to the printer

Commentary This isn’t a case of being overly fastidious with one’s artwork (although one can never be too tidy!). It is a way of ensuring that the artwork handed over to your printer is not only precise and cleaned up but has no additional elements contained within that could cause errors or faults with the printing. Examples could be a lone text box that may have a text wrap applied. This could cause issues if accidentally moved onto the layout from the pasteboard. Another could be a linked text box that, if moved or deleted, could cause issues with the narrative or content. Again, images that are still sitting on the pasteboard will get packaged up in the final artwork when there is no need, possibly creating additional work for the printer if the....PD