[Accurate]

Any print experts here?

I've sent off some work to the printers, what obvious things should I look out for when it comes back? (Check copy, bleed etc..)

Just a list would be great.

[Do Gooder]

you mean proof checking.. or looking over the finished job?

[Accurate]

proof checking - cheers

[Limbo]

Colour & registration discrepancies + if you used type effects you may want to check that too.

Sometimes when artwork is ripped you get oddities within some vector files and display fonts.

[cocknose]

...overprinting.... trapping.....etc

[Herr Kurm]

overprints, separations, transparency flattening. Learn to Distill your work.

[steharg]

what everyone said above... check fonts and their symbols also, once had a catalogue proof come back to me without any of the £ signs!

[Limbo]

Any filters should be double checked too. Stuff like drop shadows, pucker, transform, perspective... anything that uses the software to render the effect rather than plain old vectors. An example of this - my colleague recently finished a poster - titling used drop shadow effect rendered via InDesign - proof showed a grey box instead of shadow.

[Do Gooder]

all of the above.

one other thing that makes a real difference with copy heavy stuff is getting someone who has had nothing to do with the job to check it... particularly helpful if it's the type of person that gets angry when they see a apostrophe wrongly applied or scoffs when they see a hyphen that should be a em dash.