I forgot to add that in most cases when an Ad Agency sent over a Quark Express or Pagemaker file on 44mb Syquest (remember those?) with some comps that had FPOs marked up on them, we'd normally get either slides or 4x5 transparencies with the job that we'd scan and crop EXACTLY like the FPO marked. So FPO also meant to the prepress guy "scan at hi res, place file in page layout program, and crop exactly like the art director has it marked on the FPO. Sigh, the "GOD". (Good Ole' Days) LOL!
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what does FPO mean???
- Thread starter Marlene
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Stephenedwardgraphic
New Member
For position only....it means that the image is a low res place holder....
veloxgraphics
New Member
Floating point origin... oops wrong forum 
Mosh
New Member
Like the customer is going to know...you guys just want to look cool.
Like this shop down the road wrote this quote "banner lettered first surface"
like you can even do a banner second surface, he just uses fancy terms to
look more professional. If he wanted to be a real professional he wouldn't
have written me all those bad checks, thus getting banned from my shop, and
me getting arrested for assult.
Like this shop down the road wrote this quote "banner lettered first surface"
like you can even do a banner second surface, he just uses fancy terms to
look more professional. If he wanted to be a real professional he wouldn't
have written me all those bad checks, thus getting banned from my shop, and
me getting arrested for assult.
GAC05
Quit buggin' me
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FPO
The better ones are at the bottom of the list......
wayne k
guam usa
The better ones are at the bottom of the list......
wayne k
guam usa
MichaelL
New Member
People are right that it's For Position Only but, most are relating it to digital workflow. Which is also correct but, I first learned the term back in the late 70s when you would leave a halftone window, box or a cheap xerox where the halftone would go once it was stripped in to the flat. And just write f.p.o on it. So the term has been around a long time.
