Photoshop to the printers

[robertscrivens]

I'm just wondering what the best image format would be for posters and cd covers etc. that go to a printing place.

[Jacorre]

You should check with your print shop to see what they are looking for since you want to give them what they print best with.

[zlatiborac]

Even in this ****ty country where I live standard is set to PDF files .,.,. but I don't know what is situation in your place/country

[MoodsR4Cattle]

Depending on your printer, if you're doing a CD cover (complete layout) in my experience they've wanted the layout & text in QuarkXpress (or other accepted program) and the images are 300 dpi, .tiff and in CMYK. ... and don't forget to include your fonts.

For other printers I work with, they will ask for .pdf but can accept full size , 300 dpi .jpg's saved at the highest setting (12 in PhotoShop).

All in all, the best thing to do is ask the printer, like Jacorre suggested.