Logos and Color seperation

I am designing logos and I need to know from someone that has done this before what i would need to do. I mean what all do i need to give to my clients besides a disk with the logo. What differnt types of settings should I save it as besides Gif and Jpeg.
How do I do color seperation is it necessary?

First if the logo is done in illustator you should give them a vector version of the file.
If it was done in Photoshop tham give the the .psd with all the layers....

I also recomed you to give the logo in both RBG and CMYK

Also, give them the file as a higth resolution tiff (jpg simply screw up in print.

You also may find that each client is a little different. They will have different needs for the logo. I would probably give them a version for each use - ie. One for business cards, maybe one for their bank checks, web versions, a letterhead version. But using vector makes the logo scalable. If you use bitmaps then you will have to scale down only, never increase the size. So you may have to work with a larger logo.

Color seperation is necessary if they plan on printing the logo. That would mean CMYK, but.... if you can print in fewer colors you can save money. A common method of doing that is to make the logo in CMYK, but only use, for instance, two of those colors, then when comes print time, they choose the two spot colors they want for the two films (if they are using films.) - might be digital.

others on this forum have had a lot of print experience and can help you there.

Your printshop will handle the colour seperations. Also, dont give out your only copies to them, back some up for your records. Then if they lose theirs or want work done on it later you still have it.

Actually Spectra, the more important issue is that they don't steal it and not pay you for your work. :p

As a graphic designer who works for a place that gets stuff printed, and has been at this job for a couple of years now. I gotta say I still don't know hardly anything about color seperations other than just to save off your files in CMYK mode and give it to the printer for them to handle.

Just one thing,

The question, wath type of file should I send to the client, should be answered before you begin the job, it should be written in the contract...

The contracr should answer a maximun of questions, a good contract leave no space for mistake!

from what i'm guessing you're desigining this logo in photoshop, which is probably not the best thing as its not scalable. your best bet would be to do it in illustrator and give them an EPS file that they can scale themselves or give to a printer to put on whatever application is needed. including a jpg and gif version isn't a bad idea either, make them somewhat large so they can be scaled down if necessary. it really depends on the size of the place, some people will have someone who knows how to use the different files and some will just be coming back to you when they want to use it on something. hope that helps.

chris

eps is a good format to save in because not all people use Adobe products and printers I've worked with always told me to save it in .eps format.....