CETTEC Insights

If you work in litigation, you’ve probably spent more hours than you’d like to admit wrestling with a Table of Contents (TOC) and Table of Authorities (TOA) in Word. Recently, I saw a great LinkedIn post from Julie Enez  at Beyond Paralegals  about creating TOCs and TOAs and properly marking citations. That’s the part everyone talks about. From the printer’s side, we see the next part: The TOC and TOA look perfect in Word… and then things go sideways at the PDF and print stag

Even when the content is final, printing issues can cause delays if instructions are incomplete. To produce court-ready documents, printers need: Court and document type Number of sets Print sides Binding and tabs Cover colour requirements Required date and time CETTEC’s legal order form is designed to capture this information clearly, while allowing flexibility for non-court or tribunal work. If something needs clarification, our team confirms details before printing begins.

More and more source material lives on the web: online reasons for judgment, government policies, guidelines, and regulatory pages. But when that content needs to end up in a printed  court record or book, simply “print to PDF” from your browser can give you: Tiny, hard-to-read text Cropped margins Missing sections or broken page breaks On top of that, the BC Court of Appeal expects PDFs to meet certain technical standards: searchable text, consistent page numbering, and the

If you send artwork to print, you’ve probably seen a request like: “Please supply a PDF/X-1a” or“Export as PDF/X-4 with bleed and crop marks.” It sounds technical, but PDF/X is simply a set of rules that make PDFs safer for print. Once you understand the basics, it’s one of the easiest ways to cut down on file problems, surprises on press, and back-and-forth with your printer. What Is PDF/X? PDF/X is a family of PDF standards designed specifically for graphic arts and printin

You open a fresh box of brochures, flip one over, and see it: the old web address, the previous logo, last year’s promo line. The printer did exactly what it was told. The problem wasn’t the press. It was the file. Most expensive reprints come down to one simple issue: someone grabbed the wrong version. If you use print regularly, cleaning up your artwork is one of the easiest wins you can give yourself this year. Here’s a practical, no-drama way to get your files under contr